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Stretching of a Cosmic String in the Presence of a Vacuum Domain Wall

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It is shown that the domain wall pumps a cosmic string in its gravitational field with a gravitational energy. This increases the tension energy and results in the string straightening. The process of straightening is a new physical mechanism of cosmic-string stretching.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 20–26, April, 2005.

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Chechin, L.M. Stretching of a Cosmic String in the Presence of a Vacuum Domain Wall. Russ Phys J 48, 349–356 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-005-0132-z

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