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General String Cosmologies at Order $\alpha'{}^{\,3}$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-24 v2

Abstract

We compute the cosmological reduction of general string theories, including bosonic, heterotic and type II string theory to order α3\alpha'^{3}, i.e., with up to eight derivatives. To this end we refine recently introduced methods that allow one to bring the reduced theory in one dimension to a canonical form with only first-order time derivatives. The resulting theories are compatible with a continuous O(d,d,R)O(d,d,\mathbb{R}) invariance, which in turn fixes the B-field couplings.

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@article{arxiv.2107.00053,
  title  = {General String Cosmologies at Order $\alpha'{}^{\,3}$},
  author = {Tomas Codina and Olaf Hohm and Diego Marques},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00053},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v2: 20 pages, important corrections that affect the coefficient $c_{4,1}$ for bosonic and heterotic string theory; all other results unchanged

R2 v1 2026-06-24T03:46:52.946Z