SWhat changed
Related nontrivial vacuum topology after cosmological phase transitions to possible defect formation.
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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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.
Contributors
- T. W. B. Kibble · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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