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Transonic Elastic Model for Wiggly Goto-Nambu String

Brandon Carter

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9411231

Abstract

The hitherto controversial proposition that a ``wiggly" Goto-Nambu cosmic string can be effectively represented by an elastic string model of exactly transonic type (with energy density U inversely proportional to its tension T) is shown to have a firm mathematical basis.

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