Is there chaos in string cosmology?

Details Is there chaos in string cosmology? Is there chaos in string cosmology?

1997-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711049v2

Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 7204-7222

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

49 pages, Revtex 3.0, 4 postscript figures, typos in references corrected, one reference added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7204

Bianchi type IX, 'Mixmaster' universes are investigated in low-energy-effective-action string cosmology. We show that, unlike in general relativity, there is no chaos in these string cosmologies for the case of the tree-level action. The characteristic Mixmaster evolution through a series of Kasner epochs is studied in detail. In the Einstein frame an infinite sequence of chaotic oscillations of the scale factors on approach to the initial singularity is impossible, as it was in general relativistic Mixmaster universes in the presence of a massless scalar field. A finite sequence of oscillations of the scale factors described by approximate Kasner metrics is possible, but it always ceases when all expansion rates become positive. In the string frame the evolution through Kasner epochs changes to a new form which reflects the duality symmetry of the theory. Again, we show that chaotic oscillations must end after a finite time. The need for duality symmetry appears to be incompatible with the presence of chaotic behaviour as $t \to 0$. We also obtain our results using the Hamiltonian qualitative cosmological picture for Mixmaster models. We also prove that a time-independent pseudoscalar axion field $h$ is not admitted by the Bianchi IX geometry.

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