A no-go theorem for accelerating cosmologies from M-theory compactifications

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.01.064zbMATH Open1247.83305arXivhep-th/0412164OpenAlexW2045576253MaRDI QIDQ451591FDOQ451591

Authors: Edward Teo 

Publication date: 23 September 2012

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

Abstract: It is known that four-dimensional cosmologies exhibiting transient phases of acceleration can be obtained by compactifications of low-energy effective string or M-theory on time-varying manifolds. In the four-dimensional theory, the acceleration can be attributed to a quintessential scalar field with a positive effective potential. Recently, Townsend has conjectured that the potentials obtained by such compactifications cannot give rise to late-time accelerating universes which possess future event horizons. Such a `no-go' result would be desirable, since current string or M-theory seems unable to provide an adequate description of space-times with future event horizons. In this letter, we provide a proof of this conjecture for a class of warped compactifications with a single scalar modulus parametrising the volume of the compactification manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412164

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zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryfour-dimensional cosmologies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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