Cosmic Acceleration and M Theory Cosmology

Abstract

This is a short overview of spatially flat (or open) four-dimensional accelerating cosmologies for some simple exponential potentials obtained by string or M theory compactification on some non-trivial curved spaces, which may lead to some striking results, e.g., the observed cosmic acceleration and the scale of the dark energy from first principles.

Contribution to the CosPA03 Conference Proceedings; refs added

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• de Sitter Vacua in String Theory
• Accelerating Cosmologies from Compactification
• Accelerating Cosmologies and a Phase Transition in M-Theory

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