Nonintercommuting Cosmic Strings

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.78.2066MaRDI QIDQ4492487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. M. A. Bettencourt, Pablo Laguna, Richard Matzner

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9612350

zbMATH Keywords

abelian type I cosmic stringscosmic string network evolutionhigher winding numbernumerical field evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We perform the numerical field evolution for the collision of two Abelian type I cosmic strings. We present evidence that, for collisions at small but characteristic relative velocities and angles, these cosmic strings do not exchange ends and separate. Rather, local higher winding number bound states are formed close to the collision point, which promote multiple local scatterings at right angles and prevent intercommutation from happening. This constitutes the simplest example of the breakdown of the intercommutation rule, usually assumed in the construction of effective models for cosmic string network evolution.

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