M-theory moduli space and cosmology

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.043507MaRDI QIDQ2903549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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