Spacelike Singularities and String Theory

Abstract

An interpretation of spacelike singularities in string theory uses target space duality to relate the collapsing Schwarzschild geometry near the singularity to an inflationary cosmology in dual variables. An appealing picture thus results whereby gravitational collapse seeds the formation of a new universe.

12 pages, latex, three figures (epsf); references added and latex cleaned up

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• Phases of $N=2$ Theories In Two Dimensions
• Target Space Duality in String Theory
• Strong-Weak Coupling Duality in Four Dimensional String Theory
• Elements of String Cosmology
• Calabi-Yau Moduli Space, Mirror Manifolds and Spacetime Topology Change in String Theory
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• The Graceful Exit Problem in String Cosmology
• Are Horned Particles the Climax of Hawking Evaporation?
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• Attractor Explosions and Catalyzed Vacuum Decay
• Massive string modes and non-singular pre-big-bang cosmology
• A perspective on the landscape problem
• The Taming of Closed Time-like Curves
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