CLOSED INHOMOGENEOUS STRING COSMOLOGIES

Citation
A. Feinstein et al., CLOSED INHOMOGENEOUS STRING COSMOLOGIES, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 56(8), 1997, pp. 5166-5171
Citations number
50
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
56
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
5166 - 5171
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1997)56:8<5166:CISC>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We present a general algorithm which permits us to construct solutions in string cosmology for heterotic and type-IIB superstrings in four d imensions. Using a chain of transformations applied in sequence-confor mal, T duality, and SL(2,R) rotations, along with the usual generating techniques associated with Geroch transformations in Einstein frame-w e obtain solutions with all relevant low-energy remnants of the string theory. To exemplify our algorithm we present an inhomogeneous string cosmology with S-3 topology of spatial sections, discuss some propert ies of the solution, and point out some subtleties involved in the con cept of homogeneity and isotropy in string cosmology.