Export citation

Export citation

Choose format for download:

Download Citation
  • Access by Xinjiang University

Low energy effective string cosmology

E. J. Copeland, Amitabha Lahiri, and David Wands

  • School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom

Phys. Rev. D 50, 4868 – Published 15 October, 1994

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4868

Abstract

We give the general analytic solutions derived from the low energy string effective action for four-dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models with a dilaton and antisymmetric tensor field, considering both long and short wavelength modes of the H field. The presence of a homogeneous H field significantly modifies the evolution of the scale factor and dilaton. In particular it places a lower bound on the allowed value of the dilaton. The scale factor also has a lower bound but our solutions remain singular as they all contain regions where the spacetime curvature diverges signalling a breakdown in the validity of the effective action. We extend our results to the simplest Bianchi type I metric in higher dimensions with only two scale factors. We again give the general analytic solutions for long and short wavelength modes for the H field restricted to the three-dimensional space, which produces an anisotropic expansion. In the case of H field radiation (wavelengths within the Hubble length) we obtain the usual four-dimensional radiation-dominated FRW model as the unique late time attractor.

References (21)

  1. E. S. Fradkin and A. A. Tseytlin, Nucl. Phys. B261, 1 (1985); C. G. Callan, D. Friedan, E. J. Martinec and M. J. Perry, ibid. 262, 593 (1985); C. Lovelace, ibid. 273, 413 (1985).
  2. I. Antoniadis, C. Bachas, J. Ellis and D. V. Nanopoulos, Phys. Lett. B 221, 393 (1988); ibid. 257, 278 (1991); Nucl. Phys. B328, 117 (1989).
  3. D. Bailin and A. Love, Phys. Lett. 163B, 135 (1985).
  4. A. R. Liddle, R. G. Moorhouse and A. B. Henriques, Nucl. Phys. B311, 719 (1989).
  5. G. Veneziano, Phys. Lett. B 265, 287 (1991).
  6. B. A. Campbell, N. Kaloper and K. A. Olive, Phys. Lett. B 277, 265 (1991).
  7. A. A. Tseytlin and C. Vafa, Nucl. Phys. B372, 443 (1992).
  8. A. A. Tseytlin, Class. Quantum Grav. 9, 979 (1992).
  9. A. A. Tseytlin, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 1, 223 (1992).
  10. M. Gasperini and G. Veneziano, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 8, 3701 (1993).
  11. M. Gasperini and G. Veneziano, Astropart. Phys. 1, 317 (1993).
  12. D. S. Goldwirth and M. J. Perry, Phys. Rev. D 49, 5019 (1994).
  13. R. Brustein and G. Veneziano, Phys. Lett. B 329, 429 (1994).
  14. C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, and J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation (W. H. Freeman & Company, New York, 1973).
  15. C. H. Brans and R. H. Dicke, Phys. Rev. 124, 925 (1961).
  16. R. H. Dicke, Phys. Rev. 125, 2163 (1962).
  17. J. P. Mimoso and D. Wands, ``Massless fields in scalar tensor cosmologies, '' Report No. Sussex Ast 94/4 1, gr-qc/9405025, 1994 (unpublished).
  18. K. A. Meissner and G. Veneziano, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 6, 3397 (1991).
  19. A. Salam and J. Strathdee, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 141, 316 (1982); E. J. Copeland and D. J. Toms, Nucl. Phys. B255, 201 (1985).
  20. K. Behrndt and S. Förste, ``String Kaluza Klein Cosmology,'' Report No. SLAC PUB 6471, hep th/9403179 (unpublished).
  21. A. Shapere, S. Trivedi and F. Wilczek, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 6, 2677 (1991); A. Sen, ibid. 8, 2023 (1993).

Outline

Information

Sign In to Your Journals Account

Filter

Filter

Article Lookup

Enter a citation