Cosmic strings in Bekenstein-type models

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2004-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406622v3

JCAP 0502 (2005) 003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 5 figures, error in ref. [38] corrected, references added, discussion extended

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2005/02/003

We study static cosmic string solutions in the context of Bekenstein-type models. We show that there is a class of models of this type for which the classical Nielsen-Olesen vortex is still a valid solution. However, in general static string solutions in Bekenstein-type models strongly depart from the standard Nielsen-Olesen solution with the electromagnetic energy concentrated along the string core seeding spatial variations of the fine structure constant, $\alpha$. We consider models with a generic gauge kinetic function and show that equivalence principle constraints impose tight limits on the allowed variations of $\alpha$ induced by string networks on cosmological scales.

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