String Cosmology and Chaos
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We briefly review three aspects of string cosmology: (1) the ``stochastic'' approach to the pre-big bang scenario, (2) the presence of chaos in the generic cosmological solutions of the tree-level low-energy effective actions coming out of string theory, and (3) the remarkable link between the latter chaos and the Weyl groups of some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. Talk given at the Francqui Colloquium ``Strings and Gravity: Tying the Forces Together'' (Brussels, October 2001).
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204017,
title = {String Cosmology and Chaos},
author = {Thibault Damour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204017},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, one eps figure, talk given at the Francqui Colloquium "Strings and Gravity: Tying the Forces Together" (Brussels, October 2001)