Lectures on Cosmic Topological Defects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v2 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
These lectures review certain topological defects and aspects of their cosmology. Unconventional material includes brief descriptions of electroweak defects, the structure of domain walls in non-Abelian theories, and the spectrum of magnetic monopoles in SU(5) Grand Unified theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101270,
title = {Lectures on Cosmic Topological Defects},
author = {Tanmay Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101270},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
34 pages; lectures at the 2000 summer school in cosmology at ICTP, Trieste; minor correction in domain wall section