Constant Scaling Fails for Global Monopole Networks

arXiv:2607.05517 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-06 · Read on arXiv

Wakutaka Nakano, Wen Yin

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-06

Comments: 22pages, 15figures, 4tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Topological Defects — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Cosmological Evolution of Global Monopoles
• Scaling property and peculiar velocity of global monopoles
• Evolution of local and global monopole networks
• Revisiting the VOS model for monopoles
• Measuring Global Monopole Velocities, one by one
• Cosmic Microwave Background constraints for global strings and global monopoles
• Improved estimation of radiated axions from cosmological axionic strings
• Axions from Strings: the Attractive Solution
• More Axions from Strings
• Spectrum of global string networks and the axion dark matter mass
• Axion Dark Matter from Cosmic String Network
• Sledgehamr: Simulating Scalar Fields with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
• Axion mass prediction from adaptive mesh refinement cosmological lattice simulations
• More Scalings from Cosmic Strings
• Comments on Axions, Domain Walls, and Cosmic Strings
• Comment on "More Axions from Strings''
• Feebly-Interacting Peccei-Quinn Model
• Non-Scaling Topological Defects and Gravitational Waves in Higgs Portal
• Stability of domain wall network with initial inflationary fluctuations, and its implications for cosmic birefringence
• Stability of domain walls with inflationary fluctuations under potential bias, and gravitational wave signatures

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