Topological defects and open inflation

Preprint

31 March 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9703201

Abstract

Topological defects can naturally be formed soon after bubble nucleation in the open inflation scenario. The defects are not completely diluted away by the subsequent period of inflation in the bubble interior and can produce observable large-scale microwave background anisotropies. Superheavy strings and monopoles attached to the strings can act as gravitational lenses with angular separation between the images of up to an arc minute.

Keywords

INFLATION TOPOLOGICAL
TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS
DEFECTS AND OPEN
OPEN INFLATION
GRAVITATIONAL
ANISOTROPIES
NUCLEATION
BUBBLE
LENSES

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Version 1, 1997-03-31, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 56 (6), 3238.

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