Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles

Details Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles Breaking Cosmic Strings without Monopoles

1995-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506041v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.75:3390-3393,1995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, no figures; one statement corrected and references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3390

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.

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