Cosmic Strings with Interacting Hot Dark Matter

Pedro P. Avelino1, and J. Paulo M. de Carvalho1,2

1 Centro de Astrof\'{i}sica da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150 Porto, Portugal
2 Dep.\ de Matemática Aplicada da Faculdade de Ciências da Univ.\ do Porto, Rua das Taipas 135, 4050 Porto -- Portugal


We compute the linear power spectrum of cosmic string sedeed fluctuations in the context of neutrinos with a strong self-interaction and show that it is very similar to that obtained in the context of `normal' neutrinos. We compare our results with observational data and show that for any value of the cosmological parameters $h$ and $\Omega_0$ the interacting hot dark matter power spectrum requires a large scale dependent biasing parameter.


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