Spacetime structure of an inflating global monopole

Inyong Cho and Alexander Vilenkin
Phys. Rev. D 56, 7621 – Published 15 December 1997
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Abstract

The evolution of a global monopole with an inflating core is investigated. An analytic expression for the exterior metric at large distances from the core is obtained. The overall spacetime structure is studied numerically, both in vacuum and in a radiation background.

  • Received 5 August 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.7621

©1997 American Physical Society

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Inyong Cho and Alexander Vilenkin

  • Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155

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Vol. 56, Iss. 12 — 15 December 1997

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