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Inflation from String/M-Theory Compactification?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We present some exact scalar potentials for the dimensionally reduced theory and examine the possibility of obtaining accelerating 4d cosmology from String/M-theory, more generally, hyperbolic and flux compactification. In the hyperbolic case, even in the zero-flux limit, the scalar potential is positive for the 4d effective theory as required to get an accelerating universe, and thereby evading the ``no-go theorem'' given for static internal space. When we turn on the gauge fields as source terms at the cosmological background with potential V\propto exp(-2c\phi), we find eternally accelerating cosmologies when the 4d space-time is flat and c\geq 1, or hyperbolic and 1<c<\sqrt{2}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0309139,
  title  = {Inflation from String/M-Theory Compactification?},
  author = {Ishwaree P. Neupane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0309139},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

3 pp. espcrc2.sty. Minor typos corrected and Ref. added. To appear in proceedings of Lattice 2003 (Gravity), Tsukuba, Japan, July 2003