Kinks and small-scale structure on cosmic strings

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2009-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0909.1960v2

Phys.Rev.D80:123523,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

10pages, revtex file, minor errors corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.123523

We discuss some hitherto puzzling features of the small-scale structure of cosmic strings. We argue that kinks play a key role, and that an important quantity to study is their sharpness distribution. In particular we suggest that for very small scales the two-point correlation function of the string tangent vector varies linearly with the separation and not as a fractional power, as proposed by Polchinski and Rocha [Phys. Rev. D 74, 083504 (2006)]. However, our results are consistent with theirs, because the range of scales to which this linearity applies shrinks as evolution proceeds.

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