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Local cosmic strings solutions are introduced ina model with a peudo-anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry. Sucha symmetry is present in many superstringcompactification models. The coupling of those strings with the axion necessary in order to cancel theanomalies does not prevent them from being local, eventhough their energy per unit length is found to divergelogarithmically. I discuss briefly the formation of such strings and the phenomenologicalconstraints that apply to their parameters.
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Deffayet, C. Local Cosmic Strings from Pseudo-Anomalous U(1). International Journal of Theoretical Physics 38, 2917–2930 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026651914431
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