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Moving Five-Branes in Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We construct cosmological solutions of four-dimensional effective heterotic M-theory with a moving five-brane and evolving dilaton and T modulus. It is shown that the five-brane generates a transition between two asymptotic rolling-radii solutions. Moreover, the five-brane motion always drives the solutions towards strong coupling asymptotically. We present an explicit example of a negative-time branch solution which ends in a brane collision accompanied by a small-instanton transition. The five-dimensional origin of some of our solutions is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0106285,
  title  = {Moving Five-Branes in Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory},
  author = {Edmund J. Copeland and James Gray and Andre Lukas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0106285},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, Latex, 3 eps figures