String theory and quintessence
Apr, 2001
19 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 06 (2001) 003
e-Print:
- hep-th/0104180 [hep-th]
Report number:
- SU-ITP-01-25
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Abstract:
We discuss the obstacles for defining a set of observable quantities analogous to an S-matrix which are needed to formulate string theory in an accelerating universe. We show that the quintessence models with the equations of state have future horizons and may be no better suited to an S-matrix or S-vector description. We also show that in a class of theories with a stable supersymmetric vacuum, a system cannot relax into a zero-energy supersymmetric vacuum while accelerating if the evolution is dominated by a single scalar field with a stable potential. Thus describing an eternally accelerating universe may be a challenge for string theory as presently defined.- string model
- quintessence
- supersymmetry
- vacuum state
- S-matrix
- space-time: de Sitter
- space-time: Robertson-Walker
- space-time: Schwarzschild
- causality
- astrophysics: acceleration
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