Small-scale behaviour of cosmic string networks

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2008.0067MaRDI QIDQ5504027zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joseph Polchinski

Publication date 21 January 2009

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0557

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic string networkscosmologygravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The evolution of cosmic string networks is an interesting dynamical problem. The equations governing these networks are classical and fully specified, but the length scale at which cosmic string loops form has been uncertain to tens of orders of magnitude. Numerical simulations are limited in the range of length and time scales they can reach, while analytic methods have been limited by the nonlinearities of the problem. We describe a recent analytic scaling model developed in collaboration with Jorge Rocha and Florian Dubath which, together with recent simulations, appears to resolve this question.

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