Testing string cosmology with gravity wave detectors
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The general properties of the gravity wave backgrounds of cosmological origin are reviewed and briefly discussed, with emphasis on the relic background expected from an early pre-big bang phase typical of string cosmology models.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9707034,
title = {Testing string cosmology with gravity wave detectors},
author = {M. Gasperini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9707034},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, LATEX, three figures included using EPSFIG. Talk given at the "Second Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Wawes" (CERN, 1-4 July 1997). To be published in the Proceedings (World Scientific, Singapore), eds E. Coccia et al. An updated collection of papers on the pre-big bang scenario is available at http://www.to.infn.it/teorici/gasperini