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Accelerating Cosmologies from S-Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v6 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We point out that the recently proposed model of a flat 4-dimensional universe with accelerated expansion in string/M-theory is a special case of time-dependent solutions that the author found under the name of ``S-branes.'' We also show that similar accelerating models can be obtained from S-branes if the internal space is chosen to be hyperbolic or flat spaces.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303238,
  title  = {Accelerating Cosmologies from S-Branes},
  author = {Nobuyoshi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303238},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, comments added, a typo corrected, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett