Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-07-23
Adv.High Energy Phys.2008:521389,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, LaTeX, no figures; extensive revision, Sec.6 and references added, stability analysis included
Scientific paper
10.1155/2008/521389
We review the status of the fourth-order (quartic in the spacetime curvature) terms induced by superstrings/M-theory (compactified on a warped torus) in the leading order with respect to the Regge slope parameter, and study their (non-perturbative) impact on the evolution of the Hubble scale in the context of the four-dimensional FRW cosmology. After taking into account the quantum ambiguities in the definition of the off-shell superstring effective action, we propose the generalized Friedmann equations, find the existence of their (de Sitter) exact inflationary solutions without a spacetime singularity, and constrain the ambiguities by demanding stability and the scale factor duality invariance of our solutions. The most naive (Bel-Robinson tensor squared) quartic terms are ruled out, thus giving the evidence for the necessity of extra quartic (Ricci tensor-dependent) terms in the off-shell gravitational effective action for superstrings. Our methods are generalizable to the higher orders in the spacetime curvature.
Iihoshi Masao
Ketov Sergei V.
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