Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at MIT:

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2:30 pm
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6C, Room 6C-442
Refreshments at 2:00, same location

"Cosmic Superstring Dynamics"


Jose Blanco-Pillado
Tufts

Abstract:

Recent models of inflation based on string theory predict the formation of a 4-dimensional network of superstrings on a cosmological scale. In this talk, I will show how the degrees of freedom living on these fundamental strings can backreact on their spacetime motion in the same way as a neutral persistent current would, allowing, therefore, the possibility of stable string loops. I will then comment on the consequences that these stable loops have for cosmology. Finally, I will also discuss the supergravity description of these string states and their identification with known solutions describing rotating dipole black rings.

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