Weyl cosmic strings and their consequences

A. Widom; Y. N. Srivastava; N. Redington

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.48.554

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Weyl cosmic strings and their consequences

A. Widom and Y. N. Srivastava

N. Redington

Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 and Physics Department and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Building 14S-100, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Phys. Rev. D 48, 554 – Published 15 July, 1993

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.554

Abstract

Cosmic strings are discussed from the viewpoint of the Weyl metric in general relativity and its Newtonian limit. The hypothesis is explored that the observed filamentary clustering of galaxies is due to localization about Weyl cosmic strings. If the mass density is determined by a grand unification mass, then the magnitude of observed asymptotic velocities of stars in galaxies can be explained without recourse to "dark matter."

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