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Duality Invariant Cosmology to all Orders in $\alpha'$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-12-18 v2

Abstract

While the classification of α\alpha' corrections of string inspired effective theories remains an unsolved problem, we show how to classify duality invariant α\alpha' corrections for purely time-dependent (cosmological) backgrounds. We determine the most general duality invariant theory to all orders in α\alpha' for the metric, bb-field, and dilaton. The resulting Friedmann equations are studied when the spatial metric is a time-dependent scale factor times the Euclidean metric and the bb-field vanishes. These equations can be integrated perturbatively to any order in α\alpha'. We construct non-perturbative solutions and display duality invariant theories featuring string-frame de Sitter vacua.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06963,
  title  = {Duality Invariant Cosmology to all Orders in $\alpha'$},
  author = {Olaf Hohm and Barton Zwiebach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06963},
  year   = {2019}
}

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34 pages, v2: refs. added

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