Chaos in Superstring Cosmology

Thibault Damour; Marc Henneaux

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.920

Chaos in Superstring Cosmology

Thibault Damour and Marc Henneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 920 – Published 31 July 2000

Abstract

It is shown that the general solution near a spacelike singularity of the Einstein-dilaton- $p$ -form field equations relevant to superstring theories and $M$ theory exhibits an oscillatory behavior of the Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz type. String dualities play a significant role in the analysis.

Received 16 March 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.920

Authors & Affiliations

Thibault Damour

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35, route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030

Marc Henneaux

Physique Théorique et Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, C.P. 231, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
and Centro de Estudios Científicos, Casilla 1469, Valdivia, Chile