Published June 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Black strings in our world

  • 1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara 229-8558 (Japan)

Description

The brane-world scenario is a new approach to resolve the problem on how to compactify the higher dimensional spacetime to our 4-dimensional world. One of the remarkable features of this scenario is the higher dimensional effects in classical gravitational interactions at short distances. Because of this feature, there are black-string solutions in our 4-dimensional world. In this paper, assuming the simplest model of complex minimally coupled scalar field with the local U(1) symmetry, we show a possibility of black-string formation by merging processes of type I long cosmic strings in our 4-dimensional world. No fine tuning for the parameters in the model might be necessary

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 124013-124013.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society