String theory and cosmology

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1996

Authors

Bento, MC (Author) Other; Bertolami, O (Author) Other

Journal

Title: General Relativity and Gravitation

Vol. 28

Pages: 565-572

ISSN: 0001-7701

Publisher: Springer Nature

Indexing

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-007-1TJ

DOI: 10.1007/bf02105066

Abstract (EN): We discuss the main cosmological implications of considering string-loop effects and a potential for the dilaton in the lowest order string effective action. Our framework is based on the effective model arising from regarding homogeneous and isotropic dilaton, metric and Yang-Mills field configurations. The issues of inflation, entropy crisis and the Polonyi problem as well as the problem of the cosmological constant are discussed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8