Aether, dark energy and string compactifications

The nineteenth-century aether died with special relativity but was resurrected by general relativity in the form of dark energy; a tensile material with tension equal to its energy density. Such a material is provided by the D-branes of string-theory; these can support the fields of supersymmetric particle-physics, although their energy density is cancelled by orientifold singularities upon compactification. Dark energy can still arise from supersymmetry-breaking anti-D-branes but it is probably time-dependent. Recent results on time-dependent compactifications to an FLRW universe with late-time accelerated expansion are reviewed.This article is part of the theme issue ‘The future of mathematical cosmology, Volume 2’.

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12 pp. Journal format. Contribution to the special edition of the Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society focused on "The future of mathematical cosmology"

aether
branes
dark energy
energy: density
supersymmetry: symmetry breaking
expansion: acceleration
string: compactification
dark energy
time dependence
ether

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