Comment on “Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings”

R. N. Hansen, M. Christensen, and A. L. Larsen
Phys. Rev. D 61, 108701 – Published 19 April 2000
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Abstract

We show that, in a pioneering paper by Polnarev and Zembowicz, some conclusions concerning the characteristics of the Turok strings are generally not correct. In addition we show that the probability of string collapse given there is off by a large prefactor (103).

  • Received 17 February 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.61.108701

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

R. N. Hansen*, M. Christensen, and A. L. Larsen

  • Physics Department, University of Odense, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark

  • *Electronic address: rnh@fysik.ou.dk
  • Electronic address: mc@bose.fys.ou.dk
  • Electronic address: all@fysik.ou.dk

Original Article

Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings

Alexander Polnarev and Robert Zembowicz
Phys. Rev. D 43, 1106 (1991)

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Vol. 61, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2000

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