Download or read book The Mathematical Theory of Cosmic Strings written by M.R. Anderson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive survey of the current state of knowledge about the dynamics and gravitational properties of cosmic strings treated in the idealized classical approximation as line singularities described by the Nambu-Goto action. The author's purpose is to provide a standard reference to all work that has been published since the mid-1