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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• Time Dependent Cosmologies and Their Duals
• Matrix String Description of Cosmic Singularities in a Class of Time-dependent Solutions
• Matrix Membrane Big Bangs and D-brane Production
• Supersymmteric Null-like Holographic Cosmologies
• Matrix Model in a Class of Time Dependent Supersymmetric Backgrounds
• D-Brane solutions in a light-like linear dilaton background

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