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hep-th2004★ 30 cited
String windings in the early universe
Richard Easther, Brian R. Greene, Mark G. Jackson +1
We study string dynamics in the early universe. Our motivation is the proposal of Brandenberger and Vafa, that string winding modes may play a key role in decompactifying three spa…
hep-th2004★ 198 cited
Collisions of Cosmic F- and D-strings
Mark G. Jackson, Nicholas T. Jones, Joseph Polchinski
Recent work suggests that fundamental and Dirichlet strings, and their (p,q) bound states, may be observed as cosmic strings. The evolution of cosmic string networks, and therefore…