MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF TEXTURE FORMATION

被引:27
作者
LEESE, RA [1 ]
PROKOPEC, T [1 ]
机构
[1] BROWN UNIV,DEPT PHYS,PROVIDENCE,RI 02912
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1991年 / 44卷 / 12期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.44.3749
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The formation of global texture in both two and three spatial dimensions is studied using Monte Carlo techniques. We calculate the probability of texture formation for critical windings in the range [1/2,1], finding for three dimensions average values per correlation volume in the range [0.017, 0.045], which is in good agreement with previous dynamical simulations. We discuss cosmological structures seeded by texture collapse.
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页码:3749 / 3759
页数:11
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