arXiv:astro-ph/9607115·v1·Astrophysics
Cosmic Strings and Coherence
Mark Hindmarsh (1)🇬🇧 · Mairi Sakellariadou (2)🇨🇭 · Graham R. Vincent (1) ((1) Sussex University, (2) Universite de Geneve)🇬🇧
Abstract
Cosmic strings provide a radically different paradigm for the formation of structure to the prevailing inflationary one. They afford some extra technical complications: for example, the calculation of the power spectrum of matter and radiation perturbations requires the knowledge of the history of the evolution of the defects in the form of two-time correlation functions. We describe some numerical simulations of string networks, designed to measure the two-time correlations during their evolution.
Comments: 6pp Plain LaTeX, 4 EPS figures, uses epsf.sty, cmb.sty (included). Proceedings of CMB Workshop, Moriond 96