Anisotropic string cosmology at large curvatures

Stefano Foffa and Michele Maggiore
Phys. Rev. D 58, 023505 – Published 22 June 1998
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Abstract

We study the effect of the antisymmetric tensor field Bμν on the large curvature phase of string cosmology. It is well known that a nonvanishing value of H=dB leads to an anisotropic expansion of the spatial dimensions. Correspondingly, in the string phase of the model, including α corrections, we find anisotropic fixed points of the evolution, which act as regularizing attractors of the lowest order solutions. The attraction basin can also include isotropic initial conditions for the scale factors. We present explicit examples at order α for different values of the number of spatial dimensions and for different Ansätze for H.

  • Received 1 December 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.023505

©1998 American Physical Society

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Stefano Foffa and Michele Maggiore

  • Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, piazza Torricelli 2, I-56100 Pisa, Italy

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Vol. 58, Iss. 2 — 15 July 1998

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