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Non-local SFT Tachyon and Cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

Cosmological scenarios built upon the generalized non-local String Field Theory and pp-adic tachyons are examined. A general kinetic operator involving an infinite number of derivatives is studied as well as arbitrary parameter pp. The late time dynamics of just the tachyon around the non-perturbative vacuum is shown to leave the cosmology trivial. A late time behavior of the tachyon and the scale factor of the FRW metric in the presence of the cosmological constant or a perfect fluid with w>1w>-1 is constructed explicitly and a possibility of non-vanishing oscillations of the total effective state parameter around the phantom divide is proven.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701103,
  title  = {Non-local SFT Tachyon and Cosmology},
  author = {Alexey S. Koshelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701103},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

17 pages, LaTeX; v2: JHEP3 class is used, references added

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