Towards a stringy resolution of the cosmological singularity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.68.043514zbMATH Open1244.83040arXivhep-th/0304168OpenAlexW1972042034MaRDI QIDQ2903550FDOQ2903550

Authors: Damien A. Easson 

Publication date: 10 August 2012

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

Abstract: We study cosmological solutions to the low-energy effective action of heterotic string theory including possible leading order $alph{a}^{\prime }$ corrections and a potential for the dilaton. We consider the possibility that including such stringy corrections can resolve the initial cosmological singularity. Since the exact form of these corrections is not known the higher-derivative terms are constructed so that they vanish when the metric is de Sitter spacetime. The constructed terms are compatible with known restrictions from scattering amplitude and string worldsheet beta-function calculations. Analytic and numerical techniques are used to construct a singularity-free cosmological solution. At late times and low-curvatures the metric is asymptotically Minkowski and the dilaton is frozen. In the high-curvature regime the universe enters a de Sitter phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0304168

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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