Supergravity, Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe

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2002-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208156v2

Phys.Rev.D66:123503,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

20 pages, 13 figures, discussion of the axion quintessence model is added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.66.123503

We propose a description of dark energy and acceleration of the universe in extended supergravities with de Sitter (dS) solutions. Some of them are related to M-theory with non-compact internal spaces. Masses of ultra-light scalars in these models are quantized in units of the Hubble constant: m^2 = n H^2. If dS solution corresponds to a minimum of the effective potential, the universe eventually becomes dS space. If dS solution corresponds to a maximum or a saddle point, which is the case in all known models based on N=8 supergravity, the flat universe eventually stops accelerating and collapses to a singularity. We show that in these models, as well as in the simplest models of dark energy based on N=1 supergravity, the typical time remaining before the global collapse is comparable to the present age of the universe, t = O(10^{10}) years. We discuss the possibility of distinguishing between various models and finding our destiny using cosmological observations.

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