M-theory moduli space and cosmology

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.043507zbMATH Open1244.83032arXivhep-th/0212344OpenAlexW2101729784MaRDI QIDQ2903549FDOQ2903549

Authors: R. Brustein, E. G. Novak, S. P. de Alwis 

Publication date: 10 August 2012

Published in: Physical Review D. Series III (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We conduct a systematic search for a viable string/M-theory cosmology, focusing on cosmologies that include an era of slow-roll inflation, after which the moduli are stabilized and the Universe is in a state with an acceptably small cosmological constant. We observe that the duality relations between different cosmological backgrounds of string/M-theory moduli space are greatly simplified, and that this simplification leads to a truncated moduli space within which possible cosmological solutions lie. We review some known challenges to four dimensional models in the "outer", perturbative, region of moduli space, and use duality relations to extend them to models of all of the (compactified) perturbative string theories and 11D supergravity, including brane world models. We conclude that cosmologies restricted to the outer region are not viable, and that the most likely region of moduli space in which to find realistic cosmology is the "central", non-perturbative region, with coupling and compact volume both of order unity, in string units.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212344

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli space\(M\)-theory

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) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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