Abstract
It is pointed out that various types of cosmic string solutions that exist in nonsupersymmetric and globally supersymmetric theories, such as -type gauge strings, -type global and gauge strings, and superconducting Witten strings, also exist in supergravity models. When the term and superpotential satisfy some simple conditions allowing the determination of a set of vacuum states with nontrivial topology, the existence of a string embedded within a supersymmetric vacuum with a vanishing cosmological constant can be inferred. Supergravity also admits other string solutions, some of which have no counterparts in globally supersymmetric theories.
- Received 11 April 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.2378
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