Pre-Big Bang Cosmology and Quantum Fluctuations
arXiv:hep-th/0001176 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(00)00798-2
Abstract
The quantum fluctuations of a homogeneous, isotropic, open pre-big bang model are discussed. By solving exactly the equations for tensor and scalar perturbations we find that particle production is negligible during the perturbative Pre-Big Bang phase.
4 pages, use esprc2.sty. Talk given at the 3rd Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG 99), Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, 14-18 Sep 1999