Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-04-19
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
A few minor corrections. Lectures delivered at the Erice School `Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics', 4-16 September 1
Scientific paper
Progress on string theory in curved spacetimes since 1992 are reviewed. After a short introduction on strings in Minkowski and curved spacetimes, we focus on strings in cosmological spacetimes. The classical behaviour of strings in FRW and inflationary spacetimes is now understood in a large extent from various types of explicit string solutions. Three different types of behaviour appear in cosmological spacetimes: {\bf unstable, dual} to unstable and {\bf stable}. For the unstable strings, the energy and size grow for large scale factors $R \to \infty$, proportional to $R$. For the dual to unstable strings, the energy and size blow up for $R\to 0$ as $1/R$. For stable strings, the energy and proper size are bounded. (In Minkowski spacetime, all string solutions are of the stable type).Recent progress on self-consistent solutions to the Einstein equations for string dominated universes is reviewed. The energy-momentum tensor for a gas of strings is then considered as source of the spacetime geometry and from the above string behaviours the string equation of state is determined. The self-consistent string solution exhibits the realistic matter dominated behaviour $R \sim (X^0)^{2/3}\; $ for large times and the radiation dominated behaviour $R \sim (X^0)^{1/2}\;$ for early times. Finally, we report on the exact integrability of the string equations plus the constraints in de Sitter spacetime that allows to systematically find {\bf exact} string solutions by soliton methods and the multistring solutions. {\bf Multistring solutions} are a new feature in curved spacetimes. That is, a single world-sheet simultaneously describes many different and independent strings. This phenomenon has no analogue in flat spacetime and follows to the coupling of the strings with the geometry.
de Vega Hector J.
Sánchez Nadia
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