2001/01/24 by Tanmay Vachaspati, Vachaspati, Tanmay · 1 citation
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34 pages; lectures at the 2000 summer school in cosmology at ICTP, Trieste; minor correction in domain wall section
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These lectures review certain topological defects and aspects of their cosmology. Unconventional material includes brief descriptions of electroweak defects, the structure of domain walls in non-Abelian theories, and the spectrum of magnetic monopoles in SU(5) Grand Unified theory.