Strings after D-term inflation: evolution and properties of chiral cosmic strings
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We motivate the study of chiral cosmic strings through a scenario of structure formation which mixes D-term inflation and strings. We then discuss some properties of chiral cosmic strings, and results regarding their evolution and possible cosmological consequences are presented.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010295,
title = {Strings after D-term inflation: evolution and properties of chiral cosmic strings},
author = {D. A. Steer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010295},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the CAPP2000 conference held at Verbier, Switzerland between july 17th and 28th, 2000