Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-02-10
Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 7493-7520
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, 8 figures; v2 significant changes in notations, appendix and refs added; v3 significant revisions, refs added; v4 ap
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/23/24/020
In this paper, we fully investigate the cosmological effects of the moduli dependent one-loop corrections to the gravitational couplings of the string effective action to explain the cosmic acceleration problem in early (and/or late) universe. These corrections comprise a Gauss-Bonnet (GB) invariant multiplied by universal non-trivial functions of the common modulus $\sigma$ and the dilaton $\phi$. The model exhibits several features of cosmological interest, including the transition between deceleration and acceleration phases. By considering some phenomenologically motivated ansatzs for one of the scalars and/or the scale factor (of the universe), we also construct a number of interesting inflationary potentials. In all examples under consideration, we find that the model leads only to a standard inflation ($w \geq -1$) when the numerical coefficient $\delta$ associated with modulus-GB coupling is positive, while the model can lead also to a non-standard inflation ($w<-1$), if $\delta$ is negative. In the absence of (or trivial) coupling between the GB term and the scalars, there is no crossing between the $w< -1$ and $w> -1$ phases, while this is possible with non-trivial GB couplings, even for constant dilaton phase of the standard picture. Within our model, after a sufficient amount of e-folds of expansion, the rolling of both fields $\phi$ and $\sigma$ can be small. In turn, any possible violation of equivalence principle or deviations from the standard general relativity may be small enough to easily satisfy all astrophysical and cosmological constraints.
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