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Point Particle Motion in DFT and a Singularity-Free Cosmological Solution

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We generalize the action for point particle motion to a double field theory background. After deriving the general equations of motion for these particle geodesics, we specialize to the case of a cosmological background with vanishing antisymmetric tensor field and constant dilaton. We then show that the geodesics can be extended to infinity in both time directions once we define the appropriate physical clock. Following this prescription, we also show the existence of a singularity-free cosmological solution.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02412,
  title  = {Point Particle Motion in DFT and a Singularity-Free Cosmological Solution},
  author = {Robert Brandenberger and Renato Costa and Guilherme Franzmann and Amanda Weltman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02412},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures

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