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Cosmic Superstrings
Mairi Sakellariadou
Cosmic superstrings are expected to be formed at the end of brane inflation, within the context of brane-world cosmological models inspired from string theory. By studying properti…
Numerical experiments with p F- and q D-strings: the formation of (p,q) bound states
Arttu Rajantie, Mairi Sakellariadou, Horace Stoica
We investigate the behaviour of (p,q) string networks, focusing on two aspects: (1) modelling more realistic (p,q) string networks than the Z_N networks used so far and (2) investi…
Relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics from String Theory?
Nick Mavromatos, Mairi Sakellariadou
We argue that TeVeS-like vector fields appear naturally in certain string theory backgrounds involving D0-branes, as a result of the recoil velocity field, expressing the interacti…
Production of Topological Defects at the End of Inflation
Mairi Sakellariadou
Cosmological inflation and topological defects have been considered for a long time, either in disagreement or in competition. On the one hand an inflationary era is required to so…
The origin of spacetime dimensionality
Mairi Sakellariadou
I address the issue of spacetime dimensionality within Kaluza-Klein theories and theories with large extra dimensions. I review the arguments explaining the dimensionality of the u…