Cosmic String Evolution in Brane Inflation
Cosmic String Evolution in Brane Inflation
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膜膨胀中的宇宙弦演化
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2007
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A. Avgoustidis
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A. Avgoustidis
There has been notable effort in recent years to obtain inflationary models from string theory. In the most well-studied scenario, brane inflation, the inflationary phase typically ends with a phase transition leading to the production of a network of cosmic (super)strings. These have different properties than ordinary cosmic strings and thus provide a potential probe to the physics of the early universe. In this letter we review recent work on the cosmological evolution of such string networks. Focusing on analytic velocity-dependent evolution models, we discuss the phenomenology of cosmic (super)string networks and obtain constraints for brane-inflation models.