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Related symmetry-breaking vacuum topology to possible domain walls, strings and monopoles produced during cosmological phase transitions.
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The record is Kibble's sole-author 1976 Journal of Physics A paper. It is a theoretical formation argument, not observational detection, and does not absorb earlier field-theory defects, Zurek's condensed-matter dynamics or later cosmic-string phenomenology.
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- IOP DOI for Topology of cosmic domains and strings
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T. W. B. Kibble
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Kibble: topology of cosmic domains and strings
Related symmetry-breaking vacuum topology to possible domain walls, strings and monopoles produced during cosmological phase transitions.
Scientific scope
The record is Kibble's sole-author 1976 Journal of Physics A paper. It is a theoretical formation argument, not observational detection, and does not absorb earlier field-theory defects, Zurek's condensed-matter dynamics or later cosmic-string phenomenology.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
T. W. B. Kibble
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.