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ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1.How defects form
- 1.2.Phase transitions and finite
temperature field theory
- 1.3.The Kibble mechanism
- 1.4.A survey of topological defects
- 1.5.Conditions for their existence:
topological criteria
- 2.DEFECTS IN THE UNIVERSE
- 2.1.Local and global monopoles and domain walls
- 2.2.Are defects inflated away?
- 2.3.Cosmic strings
- 2.4.String loops and scaling
- 2.5.Global textures
- 2.6.Evolution of global textures
- 3.CURRENTS ALONG STRINGS
- 3.1.Goto--Nambu Strings
- 3.2.Witten strings
- 3.3.Superconducting strings !
- 3.4.Macroscopic string description
- 3.5.The dual formalism
- 3.6.The Future of the Loops
- 4.STRUCTURE FORMATION FROM DEFECTS
- 4.1.Cosmic strings
- 4.2.Textures
- 5.CMB SIGNATURES FROM DEFECTS
- 5.1.CMB power spectrum from strings
- 5.2.CMB bispectrum from active
models
- 5.3.CMB bispectrum from strings
- 5.4.CMB polarization
- 6.VARIA
- 6.1.Astrophysical footprints
- 6.2.Cosmology in the Lab
- 6.3.Gravitational waves from
strings
- 6.4.More cosmological miscellanea
- REFERENCES