Brane necklaces and brane coils
Creators
- 1. Laboratory of Physics, Saitama Institute of Technology, Fusaiji, Okabe-machi, Saitama 369-0293 (Japan)
Description
We investigate the evolution of the networks of the cosmic strings in angled brane inflation. We show how they can be distinguished from the conventional ones. The cosmic strings in angled inflation are the daughter Dp-2 branes that are extended between the mother Dp branes. In the effective action, the strings should have a moduli, since the endpoints of the Dp-2 branes can move freely on the Dp branes. Then naturally the position of the Dp-2 branes, which corresponds to the moduli of the (1+1)-dimensional effective action, can vary along the cosmic strings. The variation of the moduli results in the peculiar (1+1)-dimensional kink configurations. The kinks are the monopoles on the strings. Therefore, the cosmic strings in angled inflation become necklaces. The loops of the necklaces can shrink to produce stable winding states, which look like coils. We show why the cosmological implications of the brane necklaces are important. We point out that the cosmic strings in generic models of brane inflation should become necklaces, depending on the structure of the compactified space and the effective potential of the model
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=05/a=015/jhep052005015.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2005
- Journal Issue
- 05
- Journal Page Range
- p. 015
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36096485
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; COMPACTIFICATION; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; MEMBRANES; MONOPOLES; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; STRING MODELS; VARIATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL