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Gravitational strings. Do we see one?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-03-19 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

I present a class of objects called gravitational strings (GS) for their similarity to the conventional cosmic strings: even though the former are just singularities in flat spacetime, both varieties are equally "realistic", they may play equally important cosmological r\^ole and their lensing properties are akin. I argue that the enigmatic object CSL-1 is an evidence in favor of the existence of GS.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0811.1337,
  title  = {Gravitational strings. Do we see one?},
  author = {S. V. Krasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1337},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

The published version. Minor corrections

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