Abstract
Following Morris’s [5] consideration of a sourceless abelian gauge string in a Robertson-Walker universe with flat space sections we have generalized the treatment to the case of arbitrary spatial curvature. We find that creation or destruction of the gauge string is not possible if the spatial curvature is nonzero.
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Bhattacharyya, D., Banerji, S. Creation or destruction of sourceless abelian gauge strings in a Robertson-Walker universe. Pramana - J Phys 48, 811–817 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845614
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