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Rolling Tachyons in String Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the role of rolling tachyons in the cosmological model with dilatonic gravity. In the string frame, flat space solutions of both initial-stage and late-time are obtained in closed form. In the Einstein frame, we show that every expanding solution is decelerating.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210101,
  title  = {Rolling Tachyons in String Cosmology},
  author = {Chanju Kim and Hang Bae Kim and Yoonbai Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210101},
  year   = {2010}
}

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More references added. A version to be published in Phys.Lett.B