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Phenomenological Aspects of the Pre-Big-Bang Scenario in String Cosmology

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I review various aspects of the pre-big-bang scenario and of its main open problems, with emphasis on the role played by the dilaton. Since the dilaton is a compelling consequence of string theory, tests of this scenario are direct tests of string theory and also, more generally, of Planck scale physics.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9406056,
  title  = {Phenomenological Aspects of the Pre-Big-Bang Scenario in String Cosmology},
  author = {M. Gasperini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9406056},
  year   = {2016}
}

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30 pages, plain tex, figures available on request, DFTT-24/94