From p-branes to Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v1
Abstract
We study the relationship between static p-brane solitons and cosmological solutions of string theory or M-theory. We discuss two different ways in which extremal p-branes can be generalised to non-extremal ones, and show how wide classes of recently discussed cosmological models can be mapped into non-extremal p-brane solutions of one of these two kinds. We also extend previous discussions of cosmological solutions to include some that make use of cosmological-type terms in the effective action that can arise from the generalised dimensional reduction of string theory or M-theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612224,
title = {From p-branes to Cosmology},
author = {H. Lu and S. Mukherji and C. N. Pope},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612224},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 24 pages, no figure