The thin string limit of Cosmic Strings coupled to gravity

Details The thin string limit of Cosmic Strings coupled to gravity The thin string limit of Cosmic Strings coupled to gravity

2001-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108009v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

29 pages, 2 figures

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The thin string limit of Cosmic Strings is investigated using a description in terms of Colombeau's theory of nonlinear generalised functions. It is shown that in this description the energy-momentum tensor has a well defined thin string limit. Furthermore the deficit angle of the conical spacetime that one obtains in the limit may be given in terms of the distributional energy-momentum tensor. On the other hand it is only in the special case of critical coupling that the energy-momentum tensor defined in the Colombeau algebra is associated to a conventional distribution. The asymptotics of both the matter and gravitational field are investigated in the thin string limit and it is shown how this leads to the `conical approximation' which is valid outside the inner core of the string.

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