Scale Factor Duality: A Quantum Cosmological Approach

Abstract

We consider the minisuperspace model arising from the lowest order string effective action containing the graviton and the dilaton and study solutions of the resulting Wheeler-Dewitt equation. The scale factor duality symmetry is discussed in the context of our quantum cosmological model.

10 pages, plain tex, uses panda.tex (appended)

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