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Low energy effective string cosmology

arXiv:hep-th/9406216 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4868

Abstract

We give the general analytic solutions derived from the low energy string effective action for four dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models with dilaton and antisymmetric tensor field, considering both long and short wavelength modes of the -field. The presence of a homogeneous -field significantly modifies the evolution of the scale factor and dilaton. In particular it places a lower bound on the allowed value of the dilaton. The scale factor also has a lower bound but our solutions remain singular as they all contain regions where the spacetime curvature diverges signalling a breakdown in the validity of the effective action. We extend our results to the simplest Bianchi I metric in higher dimensions with only two scale factors. We again give the general analytic solutions for long and short wavelength modes for the field restricted to the three dimensional space, which produces an anisotropic expansion. In the case of field radiation (wavelengths within the Hubble length) we obtain the usual four dimensional radiation dominated FRW model as the unique late time attractor.

22 pages, LaTeX, SUSX-TH-94/37, SUSSEX-AST-94/6-2. (Some terminology and figure captions corrected, references added.)

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