The gravitational wave landscape of cosmic string networks with varying tension

arXiv:2601.10790 · hep-th, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-01-15 · Read on arXiv

hep-th, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-01-15

Updated: 2026-08-31

Terminology

• Gravitational Wave Emission — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• According to the Emergent String Conjecture — 1× in this paper
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Cosmic (super)strings with a time-varying tension
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• Dynamics of Cosmic Superstrings and the Overshoot Problem
• High-frequency Gravitational Waves from Superstring Phases in the Early Universe

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