Numerical gravitational backreaction on cosmic string loops from simulation
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| author | Wachter, Jeremy M. Olum, Ken D. Blanco-Pillado, Jose J. Gade, Vishnu R. Sivakumar, Kirthivarsha |
| author_facet | Wachter, Jeremy M. Olum, Ken D. Blanco-Pillado, Jose J. Gade, Vishnu R. Sivakumar, Kirthivarsha |
| contents | We report on the results of performing computational gravitational backreaction on cosmic string loops taken from a network simulation. The principal effect of backreaction is to smooth out small-scale structure on loops, which we demonstrate by various measures including the average loop power spectrum and the distribution of kink angles on the loops. Backreaction does lead to self-intersections in most cases, but these are typically small. An important effect discussed in prior work is the rounding off of kinks to form cusps, but we find that the cusps produced by that process are very weak and do not significantly contribute to the total gravitational-wave radiation of the loop. We comment briefly on extrapolating our results to loops as they would be found in nature. |
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| spellingShingle | Numerical gravitational backreaction on cosmic string loops from simulation Wachter, Jeremy M. Olum, Ken D. Blanco-Pillado, Jose J. Gade, Vishnu R. Sivakumar, Kirthivarsha General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We report on the results of performing computational gravitational backreaction on cosmic string loops taken from a network simulation. The principal effect of backreaction is to smooth out small-scale structure on loops, which we demonstrate by various measures including the average loop power spectrum and the distribution of kink angles on the loops. Backreaction does lead to self-intersections in most cases, but these are typically small. An important effect discussed in prior work is the rounding off of kinks to form cusps, but we find that the cusps produced by that process are very weak and do not significantly contribute to the total gravitational-wave radiation of the loop. We comment briefly on extrapolating our results to loops as they would be found in nature. |
| title | Numerical gravitational backreaction on cosmic string loops from simulation |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10366 |