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arxiv: astro-ph/9903362 · v1 · submitted 1999-03-23 · 🌌 astro-ph · cond-mat· hep-ph

Formation, Interaction and Observation of Topological Defects

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In these lectures, I describe the formation of defect distributions in first-order phase transitions, then briefly discuss the relevance of defect interactions after a phase transition and the observational signatures of cosmic strings. Some open questions are also discussed.

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