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String creation in cosmologies with a varying dilaton

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v1

Abstract

FRW solutions of the string theory low-energy effective actions are described, yielding a dilaton which first decreases and then increases. We study string creation in these backgrounds and find an exponential divergence due to an initial space-like singularity. We conjecture that this singularity may be removed by the effects of back-reaction, leading to a solution which at early times is de Sitter space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402156,
  title  = {String creation in cosmologies with a varying dilaton},
  author = {Joshua J. Friess and Steven S. Gubser and Indrajit Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402156},
  year   = {2010}
}

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15 pages, latex, one figure

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