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Initial Conditions in Pre-Big Bang

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This note is a summary of the work reported in hep-th/9801073. We give a brief discussion of the fine tuning problem in pre-big bang cosmology. We use the flatness problem as our test case, and in addition to the exact numerical limits on initial conditions, we highlight the differences between pre-big bang and standard inflation. The main difference is that in pre-big bang the universe must be smooth and flat in an exponentially large domain already at the beginning of the dilaton-driven inflation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9808063,
  title  = {Initial Conditions in Pre-Big Bang},
  author = {Nemanja Kaloper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9808063},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, Latex with sprocl.sty, based on talks given at PASCOS-98 and CAPP-98