Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-02-06
JCAP 0601 (2006) 005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
15 pages, no figures, references added (again)
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/01/005
We consider the spacetime dynamics of a gas of closed strings in the context of General Relativity in a background of arbitrary spatial dimensions. Our motivation is primarily late time String Gas Cosmology, where such a spacetime picture has to emerge after the dilaton has stabilized. We find that after accounting for the thermodynamics of a gas of strings, only string modes which are massless at the self-dual radius are relevant, and that they lead to a dynamics which is qualitatively different from that induced by the modes usually considered in the literature. In the context of an ansatz with three large spatial dimensions and an arbitrary number of small extra dimensions, we obtain isotropic stabilization of these extra dimensions at the self-dual radius. This stabilization occurs for fixed dilaton, and is induced by the special string states we focus on. The three large dimensions undergo a regular Friedmann-Robertson-Walker expansion. We also show that this framework for late-time cosmology is consistent with observational bounds.
Brandenberger Robert H.
Patil Subodh P.
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