Flux-Confinement in Dilatonic Cosmic Strings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study dilaton-electrodynamics in flat spacetime and exhibit a set of global cosmic string like solutions in which the magnetic flux is confined. These solutions continue to exist for a small enough dilaton mass but cease to do so above a critcal value depending on the magnetic flux. There also exist domain wall and Dirac monopole solutions. We discuss a mechanism whereby magnetic monopolesmight have been confined by dilaton cosmic strings during an epoch in the early universe during which the dilaton was massless.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9312014,
title = {Flux-Confinement in Dilatonic Cosmic Strings},
author = {G. W. Gibbons and C. G. Wells},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9312014},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, DAMTP R93/33