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Speed of Sound in String Gas Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-09 v4 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider an ensemble of closed strings in a compact space with stable one cycles and compute the speed of sound resulting from string thermodynamics. Possible applications to the issue of Jeans instability in string gas cosmology are mentioned.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4358,
  title  = {Speed of Sound in String Gas Cosmology},
  author = {Nima Lashkari and Robert H. Brandenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4358},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, one reference added, figure re-sized one reference added, one footnote added, a typo corrected

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