Non-singular string cosmology in a 2d hybrid model

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.10.026zbMATH Open1207.83061arXiv1008.5129OpenAlexW2152507652MaRDI QIDQ632086FDOQ632086


Authors: Ioannis G. Florakis, Costas Kounnas, Hervé Partouche, Nicolaos Toumbas Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 March 2011

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

Abstract: The existence of non-singular string cosmologies is established in a class of two-dimensional supersymmetric Hybrid models at finite temperature. The left-moving sector of the Hybrid models gives rise to 16 real (N_4=4) spacetime supercharges as in the usual superstring models. The right-moving sector is non-supersymmetric at the massless level, but is characterized by MSDS symmetry, which ensures boson/fermion degeneracy of the right-moving massive levels. Finite temperature configurations, which are free of Hagedorn instabilities, are constructed in the presence of non-trivial "gravito-magnetic" fluxes. These fluxes inject non-trivial winding charge into the thermal vacuum and restore the thermal T-duality symmetry associated with the Euclidean time circle. Thanks to the unbroken right-moving MSDS symmetry, the one-loop string partition function is exactly calculable beyond any alpha'-approximation. At the self-dual point new massless thermal states appear, sourcing localized spacelike branes, which can be used to connect a contracting thermal Universe to an expanding one. The resulting bouncing cosmology is free of any curvature singularities and the string coupling remains perturbative throughout the cosmological evolution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.5129




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