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Cosmology of Antisymmetric Tensor Field in D-brane Universe

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze homogeneous, anisotropic cosmology driven by a self-interacting ``massive'' antisymmetric tensor field BμνB_{\mu\nu} which is present in string theories with D-branes. Time-dependent magnetic BB field existing in the early universe can lead to the Bianchi type I universe. Evolutions of such a tensor field are solved exactly or numerically in the universe dominated by vacuum energy, radiation, and BB field itself. The matter-like behavior of the BB field (dubbed as ``BB-matter'') ensures that the anisotropy disappears at late time and thus becomes unobservable in a reasonable cosmological scenario. Such a feature should be contrasted to the cosmology of the conventional massless antisymmetric tensor field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0502051,
  title  = {Cosmology of Antisymmetric Tensor Field in D-brane Universe},
  author = {Eung Jin Chun and Hang Bae Kim and Yoonbai Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0502051},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages