String Cosmology: A Review
Abstract
The second string revolution, which begin around 1995, has led to a drastic alteration in our perception of the universe, perhaps even more so then did the first string revolution of 1984. That is, extending 10-dimensional string theory to 11-dimensional M-theory has had more profound implications than did the original extension of 4-dimensional quantum mechanics and relativity to 10-dimensional string theory. After a brief review of M-theory, I discuss some implications of large extra dimensions. I then consider astronomical evidence for, and constraints on, large compactified dimensions. I conclude with a possible resolution to the apparent inconsistency between the MSSM scale and string scale in the weak coupling limit. Talk presented at COSPAR '02, Houston, Texas, October 2002.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0303499,
title = {String Cosmology: A Review},
author = {Gerald Cleaver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0303499},
year = {2014}
}
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10 pages. Standard Latex. Changes to match retitled published version