Cosmological solutions of supercritical string theory

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2006-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611317v3

Phys.Rev.D77:126011,2008

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

v2: typos corrected and references added; v3: minor corrections; 35 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.126011

We study quintessence-driven, spatially flat, expanding FRW cosmologies that arise naturally from string theory formulated in a supercritical number of spacetime dimensions. The tree-level potential of the string theory produces an equation of state at the threshold between accelerating and decelerating cosmologies, and the resulting spacetime is globally conformally equivalent to Minkowski space. We demonstrate that exact solutions exist with a condensate of the closed-string tachyon, the simplest of which is a Liouville wall moving at the speed of light. We rely on the existence of this solution to derive constraints on the couplings of the tachyon to the dilaton and metric in the string theory effective action. In particular, we show that the tachyon dependence of the Einstein term must be nontrivial.

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