Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-03-06
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
34 pages, five figures. Contribution to the book: "Beyond the Big Bang", ed. by Ruediger Vaas (Frontier Collection Series, Spr
Scientific paper
In string theory, the traditional picture of a Universe that emerges from the inflation of a very small and highly curved space-time patch is a possibility, not a necessity: quite different initial conditions are possible, and not necessarily unlikely. In particular, the duality symmetries of string theory suggest scenarios in which the Universe starts inflating from an initial state characterized by very small curvature and interactions. Such a state, being gravitationally unstable, will evolve towards higher curvature and coupling, until string-size effects and loop corrections make the Universe "bounce" into a standard, decreasing-curvature regime. In such a context, the hot big bang of conventional cosmology is replaced by a "hot big bounce" in which the bouncing and heating mechanisms originate from the quantum production of particles in the high-curvature, large-coupling pre-bounce phase. Thanks to the strong coupling there is also an associate production of higher-dimensional branes, which could prepare (and provide the initial conditions for) a subsequent phase of brane-dominated inflation.
Gasperini Maurizio
Veneziano Gabriele
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