Closed string tachyon: inflation and cosmological collapse

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/3/035005zbMATH Open1266.83183arXiv1110.6223OpenAlexW1982983882MaRDI QIDQ4920143FDOQ4920143

Authors: Celia Escamilla-Rivera, Gerardo García-Jiménez, Oscar Loaiza-Brito, Octavio Obregón 

Publication date: 16 May 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By compactifying a critical bosonic string theory on an internal non-flat space with a constant volume, we study the role played by the closed string tachyon in the cosmology of the effective four-dimensional space-time. The effective tachyon potential consists on a negative constant related to the internal curvature space and a polynomial with only quadratic and quartic terms of the tachyon field. Based on it, we present a solution for the tachyon field and the scale factor, which describes an accelerated universe which expands to a maximum value before collapsing. At early times, the closed string tachyon potential behaves as a cosmological constant driving the Universe to an expansion. The value of the cosmological constant is determined by the curvature of the internal space which also fixes the value of the vacuum energy. As time evolves, inflation is present in our models, and it finishes long before the collapsing. At late times, we show that the collapse of the Universe starts as soon as the tachyon field condensates. We also comment on the consistency of our solution at early times at which quantum aspects become important under the perspective of quantum cosmology. Finally we briefly mention the relation among the curvature of the internal space and the value of the energy vacuum in a non-constant internal volume scenario.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6223

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zbMATH Keywords

collapsetachyoninflationary Universecritical bosonic string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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