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Monopoles on strings
T. W. B. Kibble, Tanmay Vachaspati
In cosmological scenarios based on grand unification, string theory or braneworlds, many kinds of topological or non-topological defects, including monopoles and cosmic strings, ar…
Average magnification effect of clumping of matter
T. W. B. Kibble, Richard Lieu
The aim of this paper is to re-examine the question of the average magnification in a universe with some inhomogeneously distributed matter. We present an analytic proof, valid und…
Nielsen-Olesen vortex in varying-alpha theories
J. Magueijo, H. Sandvik, T. W. B. Kibble
We consider soliton solutions to Bekenstein's theory, for which the fine structure constant is allowed to vary due to the presence of a dielectric field pervadi…
Density of strings formed at a second-order cosmological phase transition
T. W. B. Kibble, Alexander Vilenkin
We discuss the problem of estimating the characteristic length scale , and hence the initial density, of a system of cosmic strings formed at a continuous, second-order…
Cosmic strings
M. B. Hindmarsh, T. W. B. Kibble
The topic of cosmic strings provides a bridge between the physics of the very small and the very large. They are predicted by some unified theories of particle interactions. If the…