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Caroline Santos<sup>1</sup><sup>1</sup>1 dma3cds@gauss.dur.ac.uk, On leave from: Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4150-Porto, Portugal.   
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, England

PACS numbers: 04.40.-b, 11.27.+d, Keywords: gravity, topological defects