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Gravitational field around a screwed superconducting cosmic string in scalar-tensor theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-20 v1

Abstract

We obtain the solution that corresponds to a screwed superconducting cosmic string (SSCS) in the framework of a general scalar-tensor theory including torsion. We investigate the metric of the SSCS in Brans-Dicke theory with torsion and analyze the case without torsion. We show that in the case with torsion the space-time background presents other properties different from that in which torsion is absent. When the spin vanish, this torsion is a ϕ\phi-gradient and then it propagates outside of the string. We investigate the effect of torsion on the gravitational force and on the geodesics of a test-particle moving around the SSCS. The accretion of matter by wakes formation when a SSCS moves with speed vv is investigated. We compare our results with those obtained for cosmic strings in the framework of scalar-tensor theory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111167,
  title  = {Gravitational field around a screwed superconducting cosmic string in scalar-tensor theories},
  author = {V. B. Bezerra and C. N. Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111167},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, LaTeX, presented at the "XXII - Encontro Nacional de Fisica de Particulas e Campos", Sao Lourenco, MG, Brazil