Formation, Interaction and Observation of Topological Defects
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
In these lectures, I describe the formation of defect distributions in first-order phase transitions, then briefly discuss the relevance of defect interactions after a phase transition and the observational signatures of cosmic strings. Some open questions are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9903362,
title = {Formation, Interaction and Observation of Topological Defects},
author = {Tanmay Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9903362},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages; Les Houches lectures