P. Conzinu, G. Fanizza, M. Gasperini, E. Pavone, L. Tedesco, G. Veneziano
Abstract
We first make more precise a recent "Hamiltonian" reformulation of the Hohm-Zwiebach approach to the tree-level, O(d,d)-invariant string cosmology equations at all orders in the α' expansion, and recall how it allows to give a simple characterization of a large class of cosmological scenarios connecting, through a non-singular bounce, two duality-related perturbative solutions at early and late times. We then discuss the effects of adding to the action a non-perturbative, O(d,d)-breaking, dilaton potential V(ϕ). The resulting cosmological solutions, assumed to approach at early times the perturbative string vacuum (with vanishing curvature and string coupling), can stabilize the dilaton at late times and simultaneously approach either a matter-dominated FLRW cosmology or a de-Sitter-like inflationary phase, depending on initial conditions and on the properties of V(ϕ) at moderate-coupling. We also identify a general mechanism for generating isotropic late-time attractors from a large basin of anisotropic initial conditions.
Keywords
string theory and cosmology; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; initial conditions and eternal universe; High Energy Physics - Theory; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume 2023, Issue 12, Page 19
2023 December
