Hamilton-Jacobi approach to pre-big bang cosmology and the problem of initial conditions (Q1604904)

The effective string action of string cosmology is considered at low energy, with the purpose of expanding the solutions of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi equations with respect to the order of spatial gradients involved in each term. At zero order (in the long-wavelength approximation) for instance the equations \(\phi^{(0)}(t)=-2/(\sqrt{3}-1)\ln (t_0-t)\) and \(\gamma_{ij}^{(0)}(t, x^l)=(t_0-t)^{-2/\sqrt{3}}k_{ij}(x^l)\) are found as first terms for the dilation \(\phi\) and for the metric \(\gamma_{ij}\) on a spacelike hypersurface, respectively. Here \(t<t_0\) corresponds to a phase of `superinflation' of the model. The second order contributions are also derived explicitly, and the influence of initial inhomogeneities on these expansions is studied.