Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2018

Y-junction intercommutations of current carrying strings

Marc Lilley
Daisuke Yamauchi
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Takashi Hiramatsu
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Under certain conditions the collision and intercommutation of two cosmic strings can result in the formation of a third string, with the three strings then remaining connected at Y-junctions. The kinematics and dynamics of collisions of this type have been the subject of analytical and numerical analyses in the special case in which the strings are Nambu-Goto. Cosmic strings, however, may well carry currents, in which case their dynamics is not given by the Nambu-Goto action. Our aim is to extend the kinematic analysis to more general kinds of string model. We focus in particular on the collision of strings described by conservative elastic string models, characteristic of current carrying strings, and which are expected to form in a cosmological context. As opposed to Nambu-Goto strings collisions, we show that in this case the collision cannot lead to the formation of a third elastic string: if dynamically such a string forms then the joining string must be described by a more general equation of state. This process will be studied numerically in a forthcoming publication.

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hal-01704394 , version 1 (02-10-2025)

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D.A. Steer, Marc Lilley, Daisuke Yamauchi, Takashi Hiramatsu. Y-junction intercommutations of current carrying strings. Physical Review D, 2018, 97 (2), pp.023507. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.97.023507⟩. ⟨hal-01704394⟩
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