21 cm cosmology of topological defects

Cosmic strings are linear concentrations of trapped energy produced throughsymmetry breaking processes of eld theory models. Though they can onlycontribute a maxiumum of 10 percent to structure formation they have beenshown to arise as a generic consequence of many inationary setups of supergravitym...

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Main Author: Pagano, Michael
Other Authors: Robert Brandenberger (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2012
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110543