2010/09/08 by C. J. A. P. Martins
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Attractor #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic string #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Geometry #Inflation (cosmology) #Magnetic monopole #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Metric expansion of space #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scaling #Scaling law #Statistical physics #String (physics) #Theoretical physics #Universe #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.82.067301
published as Phys.Rev.D82:067301,2010 · 4 pages
openalex publication_date 2010/09/08 · arxiv created 2010/09/09 · arxiv updated 2014/11/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Previously developed analytic models for the evolution of cosmic string and monopole networks are applied to networks of monopoles attached to two or more strings; the former case is usually known as cosmic necklaces. These networks are a common consequence of models with extra dimensions such as brane inflation. Our quantitative analysis agrees with (and extends) previous simpler estimates, but we will also highlight some differences. A linear scaling solution is usually the attractor solution for both the radiation and matter-dominated epochs, but other scaling laws can also exist, depending on the universe's expansion rate and the network's energy loss mechanisms.