GRAVITATIONAL FIELD OF A STRAIGHT COSMIC STRING IN THE FRAMEWORK OF HIGHER-DERIVATIVE GRAVITY

The gravitational properties of a straight cosmic string are studied in the linear approximation of higher-derivative gravity. These properties are shown to be very different from those found using linearized Einstein gravity: there exists a short range gravitational (anti-gravitational) force in the nonrelativistic limit; in addition, the deflection angle of a light ray moving in a plane orthogonal to the string depends on the impact parameter.

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