Rolling tachyons in string cosmology

Oct, 2002
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 552 (2003) 111-118
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Abstract:
We study the role of rolling tachyons in the cosmological model with dilatonic gravity. In the string frame, flat space solutions of both initial-stage and late-time are obtained in closed form. In the Einstein frame, we show that every expanding solution is decelerating.
Note:
  • More references added. A version to be published in Phys.Lett.B
  • Rolling tachyon
  • String cosmology
  • Dilaton
  • astrophysics: string
  • tachyon
  • gravitation: dilaton
  • effective action
  • membrane model: D-brane