Dynamics of a global string with large Higgs boson mass

Abstract

We consider a self-gravitating string generated by a global vortex solution in general relativity. We investigate the Einstein and field equations of a global vortex in the region of its central line and at a distance from the centre of the order of the inverse of its Higgs boson mass. By combining the two we establish by a limiting process of large Higgs mass the dynamics of a self-gravitating global string. Under our assumptions the presence of gravitation restricts the world sheet of the global string to be totally geodesic.

23 pages, LaTeX, one figure, to be published in Phys.Rev.D 15th of March issue

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• Geometry of Deformations of Relativistic Membranes
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• Cosmic strings in axionic-dilatonic gravity