Small-scale behaviour of cosmic string networks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1877, 2008, Pages 2859-2869

  Polchinski, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic string networks; Cosmology; Gravitational waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANALYTIC METHODS; EVOLUTION (CO); LENGTH SCALING; NON-LINEARITIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; SCALING MODELS; TIME SCALING;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 47249101451     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0067     Document Type: Article

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