A disintegrating cosmic string

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/11/103zbMATH Open1002.83053arXivgr-qc/0204085OpenAlexW3121269571MaRDI QIDQ4550131FDOQ4550131

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Publication date: 19 January 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a simple sandwich gravitational wave of the Robinson-Trautman family. This is interpreted as representing a shock wave with a spherical wavefront which propagates into a Minkowski background minus a wedge. (i.e. the background contains a cosmic string.) The deficit angle (the tension) of the string decreases through the gravitational wave, which then ceases. This leaves an expanding spherical region of Minkowski space behind it. The decay of the cosmic string over a finite interval of retarded time may be considered to generate the gravitational wave.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204085

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spacestringgravitational wavedeficit angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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