Cosmic Strings

Abstract

This article, written for Scolarpedia, provides a brief introduction into the subject of cosmic strings, together with a review of their main properties, cosmological evolution and observational signatures.

References added; 14 pages, 7 figures; invited contribution to Scholarpedia http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Cosmic_strings

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• Two-photon spontaneous emission of an atom in a cosmic string background
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