Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-03-04
Phys.Lett. B461 (1999) 57-65
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages LATEX, six eps figures incorporated
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00808-4
Within the context of a super-critical (Liouville) string, we discuss (target-space) two-dimensional string cosmology. A numerical analysis indicates that the identification of time with the Liouville mode results in an expanding universe with matter which exhibits an inflationary phase, and `graceful exit' from it, tending asymptotically to a flat-metric fixed point.This fixed point is characterized by a dilaton configuration which, depending on the initial conditions, either decreases linearly with the cosmic time, or is a finite constant. This implies that, in contrast to the critical string case, the string coupling remains bounded during the exit from the inflationary phase, and, thus, the pertinent dynamics can be reliably described in terms of a tree-level string effective action. The r\^ole of matter in inducing such phenomena is emphasized. It is also interesting to note that the asymptotic value of the vacuum energy, which in the $\sigma$-model framework is identified with the `running' central charge deficit, depends crucially on the set of initial conditions. Thus, although preliminary, this toy model seems to share all the features expected to characterize a phenomenologically acceptable cosmological string model.
Diamandis G. A.
Georgalas B. C.
Mavromatos Nick E.
Papantonopoulos Eleftherios
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