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The Role of Topological Defects in Cosmology

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Topological defects are involved in a plethora of physical and astrophysical phenomena. In these lectures, I will review the role they could play in the large-scale structure formation and the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, as well as in various high energy phenomena, including baryon number asymmetry, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and gamma ray bursts. I will then summarize the gravitational effects of cosmic strings. Finally, I will briefly discuss the role of topological defects in brane world cosmology.

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Sakellariadou, M. (2003). The Role of Topological Defects in Cosmology. In: Arodz, H., Dziarmaga, J., Zurek, W.H. (eds) Patterns of Symmetry Breaking. NATO Science Series, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1029-0_3

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