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arxiv: 0707.0908 · v3 · pith:DAS2WOJRnew · submitted 2007-07-06 · ✦ hep-th

Reheating and Cosmic String Production

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords stringproductioncosmicinflationalonecomputeexcitedhardly
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We compute the string production rate at the end of inflation, using the string spectrum obtained in \lss in a near-de Sitter space. Our result shows that highly excited strings are hardly produced, thus the simple slow-roll inflation alone does not offer a cosmic string production mechanism.

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