Formation & evolution of cosmic superstrings: a short review

✍ Scribed by M. Sakellariadou

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.201000002

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

I will briefly review the formation and evolution of cosmic superstrings, in the context of brane‐world cosmological models within M‐theory. These objects can play the rôle of cosmic strings, offering a variety of astrophysical consequences, which I will briefly discuss.