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On the back reaction of gravitational and particle emission and absorption from straight thick cosmic strings: A toy model

M. L. Bedran, E. M. de Sá, Anzhong Wang, Yumei Wu

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9902067

Abstract

The emission and absorption of gravitational waves and massless particles of an infinitely long straight cosmic string with finite thickness are studied. It is shown in a general term that the back reaction of the emission and absorption always makes the symmetry axis of the string singular. The singularity is a scalar singularity and cannot be removed.

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