Stabilizing dilaton and moduli vacua in string and M-theory cosmology

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00494-XzbMATH Open0934.83046arXivhep-th/9611204MaRDI QIDQ1374344FDOQ1374344

Authors: André Lukas, Burt A. Ovrut, Daniel Waldram 

Publication date: 2 December 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how non-trivial form fields can induce an effective potential for the dilaton and metric moduli in compactifications of type II string theory and M-theory. For particular configurations, the potential can have a stable minimum. In cosmological compactifications of type II theories, we demonstrate that, if the metric moduli become fixed, this mechanism can then lead to the stabilization of the dilaton vacuum. Furthermore, we show that for certain cosmological M-theory solutions, non-trivial forms lead to the stabilization of moduli. We present a number of examples, including cosmological solutions with two solitonic forms and examples corresponding to the infinite throat of certain p-branes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611204

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zbMATH Keywords

effective potentialcompactificationsstring cosmologyfixed metric moduliinfinite certain p-brane throatM-theory cosmologystable minimum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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