Quadratic superconducting cosmic strings revisited

Understand

It has been shown that 5-dimensional general relativity action extended by appropriate quadratic terms admits a singular superconducting cosmic string solution.

• We search for cosmic strings endowed with similar and extended physical properties by directly integrating the non-linear matrix field equations thus avoiding the perturbative approach by which we constructed the above-mentioned \textsl{exact} solution.
• The most general superconducting cosmic string, subject to some constraints, will be derived and shown to be mathematically \textsl{unique} up to linear coordinate transformations mixing its Killing vectors.
• The most general solution, however, is not globally equivalent to the old one due to the existence of Killing vectors with closed orbits.