Superposition of Weyl solutions to the Einstein equations: cosmic strings and domain walls

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. L47-L51 ◽  
Author(s):  
P S Letelier ◽  
S R Oliveira
1985 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 263-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Vilenkin
Keyword(s):  

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (32) ◽  
pp. 1450193 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kurianovych ◽  
M. Shifman

We study a simple model supporting domain walls which possess two orientational moduli in addition to the conventional translational modulus. This model is conceptually close to Witten's cosmic strings. We observe an O(3) sigma model on the wall worldvolume in the low-energy limit. We solve (numerically) classical static equations of motion and find the wall profile functions and the value of the coupling of the O(3) model in terms of the bulk parameters. In the second part a term describing a spin-orbit interaction in the bulk is added, which gives rise to an entanglement between rotational and translational moduli. The corresponding extra term in the low-energy Lagrangian is calculated.


2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Barrabès ◽  
P. A. Hogan ◽  
W. Israel
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2006 ◽  
Vol 302 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 157-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. K. Reddy ◽  
M. V. Subba Rao

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 1169
Author(s):  
V.E. Kuzmichev ◽  
V.V. Kuzmichev

We draw a comparison of time-dependent cosmological parameters calculated in the standard ΛCDM model with those of the model of a homogeneous and isotropic Universe with non-zero cosmological constant filled with a perfect gas of low-velocity cosmic strings (ΛCS model). It is shown that pressure-free matter can obtain the properties of a gas of low-velocity cosmic strings in the epoch, when the global geometry and the total amount of matter in the Universe as a whole obey an additional constraint. This constraint follows from the quantum geometrodynamical approach in the semiclassical approximation. In terms of general relativity, its effective contribution to the field equations can be linked to the time evolution of the equation of state of matter caused by the processes of redistribution of the energy between matter components. In the present article, the exact solutions of the Einstein equations for the ΛCS model are found. It is demonstrated that this model is equivalent to the open de Sitter model. After the scale transformation of the time variable of the ΛCS model, the standard ΛCDM and ΛCS models provide the equivalent descriptions of cosmological parameters as functions of time at equal values of the cosmological constant. The exception is the behavior of the deceleration parameter in the early Universe.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 203-227
Author(s):  
YISONG YANG

This is a survey article concerning some recent mathematical results for the static selfdual cosmic-string solutions in the Abelian Higgs model and in the Weinberg-Salam standard model unifying electromagnetic and weak interactions, both coupled with gravity through the Einstein equations. For the Abelian Higgs strings there is a nearly complete picture. If the Riemann surface M on which the strings reside is compact, it can be shown that M must be S2 up to topological equivalence and there are only countably many values of the Higgs vacuum states for strings to exist. When M is noncompact and conformally a plane there are exact obstructions to the finiteness of energies and geodesic completeness of solutions. For the Weinberg-Salam strings, much is to be achieved. It can be shown in this case that self-dual strings generated from W and Higgs condensation lead to an explicit formula for a positive cosmological constant and the gravitational metric is always noncomplete. This feature leads to the properties that the metric decays sufficiently rapidly at infinity and there exist non-Abelian electroweak strings of finite energies. It is established that for any integer N there are always suitable ranges of the electroweak parameters to allow the existence of W- and Higgs-condensed N-vortex solutions of finite energies.


2006 ◽  
Vol 301 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 149-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. K. Reddy ◽  
K. S. Adhao ◽  
S. D. Katore

1990 ◽  
Vol 238 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vachaspati ◽  
Tanmay Vachaspati

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