Phases of the string theory effective potential during the “radiation-like” cosmological era

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (7-9) ◽  
pp. 774-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Estes
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (14) ◽  
pp. 1630027 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ellis

The plethora of recent and forthcoming data on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data are stimulating a new wave of inflationary model-building. Naturalness suggests that the appropriate framework for models of inflation is supersymmetry. This should be combined with gravity in a supergravity theory, whose specific no-scale version has much to commend it, e.g. its derivation from string theory and the flat directions in its effective potential. Simple no-scale supergravity models yield predictions similar to those of the Starobinsky [Formula: see text] model, though some string-motivated versions make alternative predictions. Data are beginning to provide interesting constraints on the rate of inflaton decay into Standard Model particles. In parallel, LHC and other data provide significant constraints on no-scale supergravity models, which suggest that some sparticles might have masses close to present experimental limits.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 1545-1563 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. PESANDO

We compute the effective potential of a system composed of a Dp-brane and a separated [Formula: see text]-brane at tree level in string theory. We show explicitly that the tachyon condenses and that the scalars which describe transverse fluctuations acquire a vev proportional to the distance.


Universe ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Partouche

We review that in no-scale models in perturbative string theory, flat, homogeneous and isotropic cosmological evolutions found at the quantum level can enter into “quantum no-scale regimes” (QNSRs). When this is the case, the quantum effective potential is dominated by the classical kinetic energies of the no-scale modulus, dilaton and moduli not involved in the supersymmetry breaking. As a result, the evolutions approach the classical ones, where the no-scale structure is exact. When the one-loop potential is positive, a global attractor mechanism forces the initially expanding solutions to enter the QNSR describing a flat, ever-expanding universe. On the contrary, when the potential can reach negative values, the internal moduli induce in most cases some kind of instability of the growing universe. The latter stops expanding and eventually collapses, unless the initial conditions are tuned in a tiny region of the phase space. Finally, in QNSR, no gauge instability takes place, regardless of the details of the potential.


Author(s):  
Sergio Albeverio ◽  
Jurgen Jost ◽  
Sylvie Paycha ◽  
Sergio Scarlatti
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Joseph Polchinski
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Nature ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenie Samuel Reich
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2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Erdmenger
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1992 ◽  
Vol 162 (8) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.Yu. Morozov
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