Evolution of Cosmic Strings

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Andreas Albrecht · The University of Texas at Austin

Neil Turok · The University of Texas at Austin

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Results of numerical simulations of the evolution of a network of interacting cosmic strings in an expanding universe are presented and compared with a simple model. The results lend weight to earlier speculations about the evolution of cosmic strings.

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Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 54, Issue 16, pp. 1868-1871

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.54.1868

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