Comment on "Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings" - art. no. 108701

Authors
Hansen, RN Christensen, M Larsen, AL
Citation
Rn. Hansen et al., Comment on "Formation of primordial black holes by cosmic strings" - art. no. 108701, PHYS REV D, 6110(10), 2000, pp. 8701
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6110
Issue
10
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000515)6110:10<8701:CO"OPB>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
We show that, in a pioneering paper by Polnarev and Zembowicz, some conclus ions concerning the characteristics of the Turok strings are generally not correct. In addition we show that the probability of string collapse given there is off by a large prefactor (similar to 10(3)).