Publication Date
1995
Journal or Book Title
Physics Review Letters
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.
Pages
3390-3393
Volume
75
Issue
19
Recommended Citation
Eardley, D; Horowitz, G; Kastor, David; and Traschen, Jennie, "Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles" (1995). Physics Review Letters. 1240.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/1240
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v75/i19/p3390_1