Fermion quantum corrections to the energy of cosmic strings are computed. A number of rather technical tools are needed to formulate this correction, and isospin and gauge invariance are employed to verify consistency of these tools. These corrections must also be included when computing the energy of strings that are charged by populating fermion bound states in its background. It is found that charged strings are dynamically stabilized in theories similar to the standard model of particle physics.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 40–44, November, 2016.
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Weigel, H. Cosmic Strings Stabilized by Quantum Fluctuations. Russ Phys J 59, 1768–1774 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-017-0975-0
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