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 , 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 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