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Non-singular string cosmology via $\alpha^{\prime}$ corrections

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-30 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In string theory, an important challenge is to show if the big-bang singularity could be resolved by the higher derivative α\alpha' corrections. In this work, based on the Hohm-Zwiebach formula, we construct a series of non-singular non-perturbative cosmological solutions with the complete α\alpha^{\prime} corrections, for the bosonic gravi-dilaton system. In the perturbative regime, these solutions exactly match the perturbative results given in literature. Our results show that the big-bang singularity indeed could be smoothed out by the higher derivative α\alpha' corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1909.00830,
  title  = {Non-singular string cosmology via $\alpha^{\prime}$ corrections},
  author = {Peng Wang and Houwen Wu and Haitang Yang and Shuxuan Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00830},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

V2: 12 pages, 6 figures, references added, V3: typos corrected in equations (3.21) and (3.22), references added, version to appear in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:03:24.387Z