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