Self-dual cosmic strings and gravitating vortices in gauged sigma models

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Verbin, Y ^a   Madsen, S ^b   Larsen, A L ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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ARTICLE; COSMOS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; GRAVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

EID: 0038441551     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.085019     Document Type: Article

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