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Vanishing of Gravitational Particle Production in the Formation of Cosmic Strings

I. Brevik, B. Jensen

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9803246

Abstract

We consider the gravitationally induced particle production from the quantum vacuum which is defined by a free, massless and minimally coupled scalar field during the formation of a gauge cosmic string. Previous discussions of this topic estimate the power output per unit length along the string to be of the order of 1068 ergs/sec/cm in the s-channel. We find that this production may be completely suppressed. A similar result is also expected to hold for the number of produced photons.

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