12 citations · 19 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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gr-qc2014★ 7 cited
Radially stabilized inflating cosmic strings
Florian Niedermann, Robert Schneider
In General Relativity, cosmic strings are well known to produce a static, locally flat spacetime with a wedge removed. If the tension exceeds a critical value, the deficit angle be…
gr-qc2014★ 12 cited
The Universe as a Cosmic String
Florian Niedermann, Robert Schneider, Stefan Hofmann +1
The cosmology of brane induced gravity in six infinite dimensions is investigated. It is shown that a brane with Friedmann-Robertson-Walker symmetries necessarily acts as a source…