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The Mathematical Theory of Cosmic Strings

Cosmic Strings in the Wire Approximation

The Mathematical Theory of Cosmic Strings
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This text provides a survey of the state of knowledge about the dynamics and gravitational properties of cosmic strings treated in the idealized classical approximation as line singularities described by the Nambu-Goto action. The author's purpose is to provide a standard reference to all work that has been published since the mid-1970s and to link this work together in a single conceptual framework and a single notational formalism. A working knowledge of basic general relativity is assumed.

This book should be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in mathematics, theoretical physics and astronomy, and those interested in cosmic strings.

CRC Press; November 2002
392 pages; ISBN 9781420033366
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