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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