Cosmic string formation from correlated fields

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 647-652

  Scherrer, Robert J ^a   Vilenkin, Alexander ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000681973     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.647     Document Type: Article

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