Big Bang Models in String Theory

Abstract

These proceedings are based on lectures delivered at the "RTN Winter School on Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories", CERN, January 16 - January 20, 2006. The school was mainly aimed at Ph.D. students and young postdocs. The lectures start with a brief introduction to spacetime singularities and the string theory resolution of certain static singularities. Then they discuss attempts to resolve cosmological singularities in string theory, mainly focusing on two specific examples: the Milne orbifold and the matrix big bang.

44 pages, 18 figures; v2: misprints in section 4.2 fixed (corrects published version), reference added

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• Strings from Matrices
• Little String Theory in a Double Scaling Limit
• Inside the Horizon with AdS/CFT
• Strings in Time-Dependent Orbifolds
• Instability of Spacelike and Null Orbifold Singularities
• D-branes in Gepner models
• Enhanced Gauge Symmetries and K3 Surfaces
• A Matrix Big Bang
• D-branes and Discrete Torsion II
• Time-dependent Orbifolds and String Cosmology
• Holographic Description of AdS Cosmologies
• From Big Bang to Big Crunch and Beyond
• Tensors from K3 Orientifolds
• Excursions beyond the horizon: Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories (I)
• Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their Duals
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• M-Theory and the Light Cone
• On Smooth Time-Dependent Orbifolds and Null Singularities
• Compactification in the Lightlike Limit
• The Tachyon at the End of the Universe
• Matrix Cosmology
• Branes: from free fields to general backgrounds
• Comments on Cosmological Singularities in String Theory
• Generalised supersymmetric fluxbranes
• Effective Dynamics of the Matrix Big Bang
• String interactions in gravitational wave backgrounds
• A Class of Cosmological Matrix Models
• Time-dependent Solutions with Null Killing Spinor in M-theory and Superstrings
• Milne Universe, Tachyons, and Quantum Group
• The Time-dependent Supersymmetric Configurations in M-theory and Matrix Models
• pp Wave Big Bangs: Matrix Strings and Shrinking Fuzzy Spheres
• Closed Strings in Misner Space: Cosmological Production of Winding Strings
• Orbifold boundary states from Cardy's condition
• Shock Waves and Cosmological Matrix Models
• A Matrix Model for Misner Universe and Closed String Tachyons
• Matrix String Description of Cosmic Singularities in a Class of Time-dependent Solutions
• Matrix Cosmology
• Matrix Membrane Big Bangs and D-brane Production
• Quantum charged fields in Rindler space
• A Matrix Model for the Null-Brane
• Global Fluctuation Spectra in Big Crunch/Big Bang String Vacua
• Exactly Solvable Model of Superstring in Plane-wave Background with Linear Null Dilaton
• D-branes in a Big Bang/Big Crunch Universe: Misner Space
• Strings in Singular Time-Dependent Backgrounds
• On the Classical Stability of Orientifold Cosmologies
• Supersymmteric Null-like Holographic Cosmologies
• Strings in Gravimagnetic Fields
• Closed Strings in Misner Space: Stringy Fuzziness with a Twist
• D-instantons and Closed String Tachyons in Misner Space
• Matrix Model in a Class of Time Dependent Supersymmetric Backgrounds
• Flow of Geometries and Instantons on the Null Orbifold
• Newtonian M(atrix) Cosmology
• D-Brane solutions in a light-like linear dilaton background

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• One-Loop Effect of Null-Like Cosmology's Holographic Dual Super-Yang-Mills
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• Holography and Cosmological Singularities
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• Interactions for Winding Strings in Misner Space
• Multiple M0-brane equations in eleven dimensional pp-wave superspace and BMN matrix model
• Behavior of tachyon in string cosmology based on gauged WZW model
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