The rise and fall of the cosmic string theory

[wolram]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0501590
The cosmic string theory for cosmological primordal petturbations
has been ruled out.

 

[Locrian]

Interesting paper, thank you.

 

[wolram]

http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/fulltext?format=application/pdf&identifier=oai%3AarXiv.org%3Aastro-ph%2F9406020
I think this is an earlier related paper

 

[SelmerSaxMan]

could someone copy that paper and paste it onto this thread? I am very interested in this, bu I don't have sufficient software to view it.

 

[tjopau]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0410073 (Kibble - it was probably referenced in the other paper) is worth a read as well, IMHO.