Cosmic Superstrings Revisited
高能物理 - 理论
2010-11-05 v2 天体物理学
广义相对论与量子宇宙学
高能物理 - 唯象学
摘要
It is possible that superstrings, as well as other one-dimensional branes, could have been produced in the early universe and then expanded to cosmic size today. I discuss the conditions under which this will occur, and the signatures of these strings. Such cosmic superstrings could be the brightest objects visible in gravitational wave astronomy, and might be distinguishable from gauge theory cosmic strings by their network properties.
引用
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0410082,
title = {Cosmic Superstrings Revisited},
author = {Joseph Polchinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0410082},
year = {2010}
}
备注
18 pages, 3 figures. Presented at the Mitchell Conference on Superstring Cosmology, GR17, Cosmo 04, and the 2004 APS-DPF Meeting. v2: typos fixed, references added, some added discussion of pulsar bounds and Hagedorn transitions