Abstract
We wish to demonstrate that the recently discovered large-scale structure of the Universe (voids and filaments) can be explained by cosmic strings. We also predict the presence of pointlike structures ("knobs") of in the vicinity of larger galaxies. The present analysis is limited to order-of-magnitude estimates. A detailed analysis would necessarily have to go into the full nonlinear theory of the growth of fluctuations in the Universe.
- Received 14 April 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1655
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