Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.75.3390zbMATH Open1020.83690arXivgr-qc/9506041WikidataQ74561885 ScholiaQ74561885MaRDI QIDQ4492279FDOQ4492279

Authors: Douglas M. Eardley, Gary T. Horowitz, Jennie Traschen, David Kastor 

Publication date: 16 July 2000

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

Abstract: It is shown that topologically stable cosmic strings can, in fact, appear to end or to break, even in theories without monopoles. This can occur whenever the spatial topology of the universe is nontrivial. For the case of Abelian-Higgs strings, we describe the gauge and scalar field configurations necessary for a string to end on a black hole. We give a lower bound for the rate at which a cosmic string will break via black hole pair production, using an instanton calculation based on the Euclidean C-metric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506041

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Cosmic \(p\)-branes
• First-order quantum correction of thermodynamics in a charged accelerating AdS black hole with gauge potential
• Vortex hair on AdS black holes
• Rotating black hole hair
• Complex Instantons and Charged Rotating Black Hole Pair Creation
• Creating a traversable wormhole
• Thermodynamics of charged, rotating, and accelerating black holes
• Black hole pair production on cosmic strings in the presence of a background magnetic field
• Quasinormal modes and stability of accelerating Reissner-Nordström AdS black holes
• Instantons for particles joined by strings in three dimensional gravity
• Overcharging an accelerating Reissner-Nordström-anti-de Sitter black hole with test field and particle
• BLACK HOLE AND BRANE PRODUCTION IN TEV GRAVITY: A REVIEW
• Geometrical thermodynamics and P-V criticality of charged accelerating AdS black holes
• \(f(R)\) gravity effects on charged accelerating AdS black holes using holographic tools
• Charged topological black hole pair creation
• Non-perturbative materialization of ghosts
• No-boundary cosmology
• Braneworld Black Holes
• Pair Production of Black Holes on Cosmic Strings
• Selection Rules for Splitting Strings

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