Cosmic string nucleation near the inflat
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Minos Axenides; Arne L. Larsen
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Article
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1995
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We investigate the nucleation of circular cosmic strings in models of generalized inflationary universes with an accelerating scale factor. We consider toy cosmological models of a smooth inflationary exit and transition into a flat Minkowski spacetime. Our results establish that an inflationary exp