LETTER: Exact Metric Around a Wiggly Cosmic String
Abstract
The exact metric around a wiggly cosmic string is found by modifying the energy momentum-tensor of a straight infinitely thin cosmic string to include an electric current along the symmetry axis.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- March 2001
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0010043
- Bibcode:
- 2001GReGr..33..603O
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic string;
- electric current;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages