Cosmic-string traveling waves

Journal Article · Sat Sep 15 04:00:00 EDT 1990 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.1960· OSTI ID:6163078

Garfinkle, D ^[1]; Vachaspati, T ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (USA)
2. Department of Physics, Tufts University, Medford, MA (USA)

We find the metric, scalar, and gauge fields for a traveling wave on a strongly gravitating cosmic string. This solution is found by applying a transformation to the corresponding solution for a long straight static string. Limiting cases of the solution are examined and found to agree with previous results.

• OSTI ID: 6163078
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA) Vol. 42:6; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPOSITE MODELS
COSMOLOGY
EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
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FIELD EQUATIONS
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MATHEMATICAL SPACE
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PARTICLE MODELS
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SPACE
SPACE-TIME
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