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Universe from vacuum in loop-string cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper we study the description of the Universe based on the low energy superstring theory modified by the Loop Quantum Gravity effects.This approach was proposed by De Risi et al. in the Phys. Rev. D {\bf 76} (2007) 103531. We show that in the contrast with the string motivated pre-Big Bang scenario, the cosmological realisation of the tt-duality transformation is not necessary to avoid an initial singularity. In the model considered the universe starts its evolution in the vacuum phase at time tt\to - \infty. In this phase the scale factor a0a\to 0, energy density ρ0\rho \to 0 and coupling of the interactions gs20g^2_s \to 0. After this stage the universe evolves to the non-singular hot Big Bang phase ρρmax<\rho \to \rho_{\text{max}} < \infty. Then the standard classical universe emerges. During the whole evolution the scale factor increases monotonically. We solve this model analytically. We also propose and solve numerically the model with an additional dilaton potential in which the universe starts the evolution from the asymptotically free vacuum phase gs20g^2_s \to 0 and then evolves non-singularly to the emerging dark energy dominated phase with the saturated coupling constant gs2constg^2_s \to \text{const}.

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@article{arxiv.0803.1742,
  title  = {Universe from vacuum in loop-string cosmology},
  author = {Jakub Mielczarek and Marek Szydlowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1742},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

JHEP3 LaTeX class, 19 pages, 9 figures, v2: added some comments and references, v3: new numerical result added, new figures

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