On the cosmological relevance of the tachyon

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02512-1zbMath0998.83064arXivhep-th/0204204MaRDI QIDQ697887

Debashis Ghoshal, Dileep P. Jatkar, Debajyoti Choudhury, Sudhakar Panda

Publication date: 17 September 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204204

zbMATH Keywords

D-brane; Born-Infeld type Lagrangian; effective tachyon field action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

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