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Cosmic String Wakes in Scalar-Tensor Gravities

S. R. M. Masalskiene, M. E. X. Guimaraes

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0003041

Abstract

The formation and evolution of cosmic string wakes in the framework of a scalar-tensor gravity are investigated in this work. We consider a simple model in which cold dark matter flows past an ordinary string and we treat this motion in the Zel'dovich approximation. We make a comaprison between our results and previous results obtained in the context of General Relativity. We propose a mechanism in which the contribution of the scalar field to the evolution of the wakes may lead to a cosmological observation.

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