Cosmic string loop production functions

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2019/06/015zbMATH Open1481.83094arXiv1903.06685OpenAlexW3106441040MaRDI QIDQ5862980FDOQ5862980

Authors: Pierre Auclair, Christophe Ringeval, Mairi Sakellariadou, Danièle A. Steer 

Publication date: 10 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Numerical simulations of Nambu-Goto cosmic strings in an expanding universe show that the loop distribution relaxes to an universal configuration, the so-called scaling regime, which is of power law shape on large scales. Precise estimations of the power law exponent are, however, still matter of debate while numerical simulations do not incorporate all the radiation and backreaction effects expected to affect the network dynamics at small scales. By using a Boltzmann approach, we show that the steepness of the loop production function with respect to loops size is associated with drastic changes in the cosmological loop distribution. For a scale factor varying as a(t)~t^nu, we find that sub-critical loop production functions, having a Polchinski-Rocha exponent chi < (3nu-1)/2, yield scaling loop distributions which are mostly insensitive to infra-red (IR) and ultra-violet (UV) assumptions about the cosmic string network. For those, cosmological predictions are expected to be relatively robust, in accordance with previous results. On the contrary, critical and super-critical loop production functions, having chi >= (3nu-1)/2, are shown to be IR-physics dependent and this generically prevents the loop distribution to relax towards scaling. In the latter situation, we discuss the additional regularisations needed for convergence and show that, although a scaling regime can still be reached, the shape of the cosmological loop distribution is modified compared to the naive expectation. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06685

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zbMATH Keywords

domain wallsmonopolescosmic stringsgravitational waves/theorygravitational waves/sources

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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