Duality Invariant Cosmology to all Orders in $\alpha'$
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-12-18 v2
Abstract
While the classification of corrections of string inspired effective theories remains an unsolved problem, we show how to classify duality invariant corrections for purely time-dependent (cosmological) backgrounds. We determine the most general duality invariant theory to all orders in for the metric, -field, and dilaton. The resulting Friedmann equations are studied when the spatial metric is a time-dependent scale factor times the Euclidean metric and the -field vanishes. These equations can be integrated perturbatively to any order in . We construct non-perturbative solutions and display duality invariant theories featuring string-frame de Sitter vacua.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.06963,
title = {Duality Invariant Cosmology to all Orders in $\alpha'$},
author = {Olaf Hohm and Barton Zwiebach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06963},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
34 pages, v2: refs. added