Cosmic Superstrings

TL;DR

This paper explores cosmic superstrings formed after brane inflation, analyzing their properties and observational signatures to understand their role in the universe's evolution and string theory models.

Contribution

It provides a detailed study of cosmic superstring networks and compares their observable effects with data to constrain inflationary models.

Findings

Constraints on superstring tension from observational data

Insights into the viability of brane inflation models

Predictions for cosmic superstring signatures in cosmological observations

Abstract

Cosmic superstrings are expected to be formed at the end of brane inflation, within the context of brane-world cosmological models inspired from string theory. By studying properties of cosmic suprestring networks, and comparing their phenomenological consequences against observational data, we aim at pinning down the successful and natural inflationary model and get an insight into the stringy description of our universe.