Extreme Cosmic String

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1995-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508055v1

Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 5698-5706

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

18 pages, latex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5698

This paper deals with the geometry of supermassive cosmic strings. We have used an approach that enforces the spacetime of cosmic strings to also satisfy the conservation laws of a cylindric gravitational topological defect, that is a spacetime kink. In the simplest case of kink number unity, the entire energy range of supermassive strings becomes then quantized so that only cylindrical defects with linear energy density $G\mu=1/4$ (critical string) and $G\mu=1/2$ (extreme string) are allowed to occur in this range. It has been seen that the internal spherical coordinate $\theta$ of the string metric embedded in an Euclidean three-space also evolves on imaginary values, leading to the creation of a covering shell of broken phase that protects the core with trapped energy, even for $G\mu=1/2$. Then the conical singularity becomes a removable horizaon singularity. We re-express the extreme string metric in the Finkelstein- McCollum standard form and remove the geodesic incompleteness by using the Kruskal technique. The z=const. sections of the resulting metric are the same as the hemispherical section of the metric of a De Sitter kink. Some physical consequences from these results, including the possibility that the extreme string drives inflation and thermal effects in its core, are also discussed.

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