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De Sitter Bounces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

By analytically continuing recently-found instantons, we construct time-dependent solutions of Einstein-Maxwell de Sitter gravity which smoothly bounce between two de Sitter phases. These deformations of de Sitter space undergo several stages in their time evolution. Four and five-dimensional de Sitter bounces can be lifted to non-singular time-dependent solutions of M-theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406028,
  title  = {De Sitter Bounces},
  author = {H. Lu and J. F. Vazquez-Poritz and John E. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406028},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 18 pages, 5 figures