Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-12-31
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 043507
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
42 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.043507
We conduct a systematic search for a viable string/M-theory cosmology, focusing on cosmologies that include an era of slow-roll inflation, after which the moduli are stabilized and the Universe is in a state with an acceptably small cosmological constant. We observe that the duality relations between different cosmological backgrounds of string/M-theory moduli space are greatly simplified, and that this simplification leads to a truncated moduli space within which possible cosmological solutions lie. We review some known challenges to four dimensional models in the "outer", perturbative, region of moduli space, and use duality relations to extend them to models of all of the (compactified) perturbative string theories and 11D supergravity, including brane world models. We conclude that cosmologies restricted to the outer region are not viable, and that the most likely region of moduli space in which to find realistic cosmology is the "central", non-perturbative region, with coupling and compact volume both of order unity, in string units.
Brustein Ram
de Alwis Senarath P.
Novak Eric G.
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