Phys. Rev. D 61, 108701 (2000) [2 pages]

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

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R. N. Hansen^*, M. Christensen^†, and A. L. Larsen^‡
Physics Department, University of Odense, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark

Received 17 February 1999; revised 10 August 1999; published 19 April 2000

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).

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.61.108701

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.61.108701

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11.27.+d, 04.70.Bw, 98.70.Rz

^*Electronic address: rnh@fysik.ou.dk

^†Electronic address: mc@bose.fys.ou.dk

^‡Electronic address: all@fysik.ou.dk

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Phys. Rev. D 61, 108701 (2000) [2 pages]

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

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