Stretching and Kibble scaling regimes for Hubble-damped defect networks

The cosmological evolution of topological defect networks can broadly be divided into two stages. At early times they are friction dominated due to particle scattering and therefore nonrelativistic and may either be conformally stretched or evolve in the Kibble regime. At late times they are relativ...

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Main Authors: Martins, C.J.A.P., Rybak, I. Yu., Avgoustidis, A., Shellard, E.P.S.
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42176/