Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-10-30
Nucl.Phys. B495 (1997) 365-399
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
34 pages, Latex, 3 figures using epsf
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00194-6
A general framework for studying a large class of cosmological solutions of the low-energy limit of type II string theory and of M-theory, with non-trivial Ramond form fields excited, is presented. The framework is applicable to spacetimes decomposable into a set of flat or, more generally, maximally symmetric spatial subspaces, with multiple non-trivial form fields spanning one or more of the subspaces. It is shown that the corresponding low-energy equations of motion are equivalent to those describing a particle moving in a moduli space consisting of the scale factors of the subspaces together with the dilaton. The choice of which form fields are excited controls the potential term in the particle equations. Two classes of exact solutions are given, those corresponding to exciting only a single form and those with multiple forms excited which correspond to Toda theories. Although typically these solutions begin or end in a curvature singularity, there is a subclass with positive spatial curvature which appears to be singularity free. Elements of this class are directly related to certain black p-brane solutions.
Lukas Andre
Ovrut Burt A.
Waldram Daniel
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