Characteristics of unwinding textures

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Particle-Theory And Field-Theory Models Of The Early Universe

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The evolution of initially random texture field configurations is considered, without recourse to the nonlinear σ-model approximation. Numerical simulations yield a set of texture unwinding events, which can be characterized by their topological charge and a new quantity we call the fractional manifold covering. This accounts for the possibility that a generic texture configuration can wind several times over some sections of the vacuum manifold while leaving others uncovered. We find unwindings with fractional manifold coverings in the range 0.56<=C+/-<=0.98. In good agreement with our earlier conclusions regarding singly wound spherically symmetric configurations, we find that there is a maximum likelihood, or characteristic, covering associated with the unwinding of these random configurations. In Minkowski space, this characteristic covering and the dispersion around it are found to be C+/-c=0.81+/-0.10, while the characteristic topological charge is 10% larger.

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