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hep-th1999★ 22 cited
Elementary introduction to pre-big bang cosmology and to the relic graviton background
M. Gasperini
This is a contracted version of a series of lectures for graduate and undergraduate students given at the {\sl "VI Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica"} (Parma, September 1997),…
gr-qc1999★ 14 cited
Looking back in time beyond the big bang
M. Gasperini
String theory can (in principle) describe gravity at all curvature scales, and can be applied to cosmology to look back in time beyond the Planck epoch. The duality symmetries of s…
gr-qc1999★ 18 cited
Inflation and initial conditions in the pre-big bang scenario
M. Gasperini
The pre-big bang scenario describes the evolution of the Universe from an initial state approaching the flat, cold, empty, string perturbative vacuum. The choice of such an initial…