From p-branes to cosmology

Dec, 1996
24 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 14 (1999) 4121-4142
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CTP-TAMU-65-96,
  • LPTENS-96-73

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Abstract:
We study the relationship between static p-brane solitons and cosmological solutions of string theory or M-theory. We discuss two different ways in which extremal p-branes can be generalised to non-extremal ones, and show how wide classes of recently discussed cosmological models can be mapped into non-extremal p-brane solutions of one of these two kinds. We also extend previous discussions of cosmological solutions to include some that make use of cosmological-type terms in the effective action that can arise from the generalised dimensional reduction of string theory or M-theory.
  • string model
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • field theory: soliton
  • field theory: M-theory
  • cosmological model
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