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Scaling properties of multitension domain wall networks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-03 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the asymptotic scaling properties of domain wall networks with three different tensions in various cosmological epochs. We discuss the conditions under which a scale-invariant evolution of the network (which is well established for simpler walls) still applies, and also consider the limiting case where defects are locally planar and the curvature is concentrated in the junctions. We present detailed quantitative predictions for scaling densities in various contexts, which should be testable by means of future high-resolution numerical simulations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.00234,
  title  = {Scaling properties of multitension domain wall networks},
  author = {M. F. Oliveira and C. J. A. P. Martins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00234},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures (some with low resolution due to arXiv size limits)