Reheating and Cosmic String Production
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-10-27 v3
Abstract
We compute the string production rate at the end of inflation, using the string spectrum obtained in \lss in a near-de Sitter space. Our result shows that highly excited strings are hardly produced, thus the simple slow-roll inflation alone does not offer a cosmic string production mechanism.
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@article{arxiv.0707.0908,
title = {Reheating and Cosmic String Production},
author = {Chao-Jun Feng and Xian Gao and Miao Li and Wei Song and Yushu Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0908},
year = {2010}
}
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16 pages, harvmac, v2:minor change of the title v3: major change of the conclusion