SUPERCONDUCTING COSMIC STRINGS WITH EXOTIC SPACETIME - ART. NO. 043505

The metric for a superconducting cosmic string with constant momentum has been calculated analytically and numerically using the full Einste in field equations. We show that the string metric has mixed component s, which for heavy strings (eta(phi) similar to 10(18) GeV) describe a spacetime with exotic properties. In the string spacetime particles a re deflected (in the z-direction) as they approach the string, effecti vely isolating the defect from the outside Universe. The inclusion of gravity into models of charged strings and vortons is expected to have significant cosmological implications.