Turbulent perfect fluid analogy for an inflationary nonsingular vacuum bubble and the strong energy condition within a string derived cosmology (Q5931069)

The paper under review is an exhaustive description of research comprising a number of important aspects of theoretical physics. Most of the subjects covered here are still on the evolutionary anvil. A toy stochastic inflationary model based on the generic dilation-Einstein field equations, constructed from an effective string theory of the \(\sigma\)-model expansion, is derived. In the second section a string-derived cosmology is discussed and the corresponding cosmological equations are explicitly written down. Next, the interesting features of the fluctuating vacuum as a turbulent perfect fluid are dealt with. This is followed by the question of turbulent unbounded inflation. In the fifth section the problem of transition to a non-singular Robertson-Walker universe with the cosmological constant is explained. The Einstein-de Sitter type solutions and the role of the cosmological constant form the content of the sixth section. Finally the paper concludes with a hope that ``further developments could incorporate the axiom field or fermionic degrees of freedom via the effective superstring action''. There are 55 references to the related literature.