Cosmology and Heterotic M-Theory in Five-Dimensions

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dc.creatorLukas, Andre
dc.creatorOvrut, Burt A.
dc.creatorWaldram, Daniel
dc.date1998-12-08
dc.date1998-12-11
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dc.descriptionIn these lectures, we present cosmological vacuum solutions of Horava-Witten theory and discuss their physical properties. We begin by deriving the five-dimensional effective action of strongly coupled heterotic string theory by performing a reduction, on a Calabi-Yau three-fold, of M-theory on S1/Z2. The effective theory is shown to be a gauged version of five-dimensional N=1 supergravity coupled, for simplicity, to the universal hypermultiplet and four-dimensional boundary theories with gauge and universal gauge matter fields. The static vacuum of the theory is a pair of BPS three-brane domain walls. We show that this five-dimensional theory, together with the domain wall vacuum solution, provides the correct starting point for early universe cosmology in Horava-Witten theory. Relevant cosmological solutions are those associated with the BPS domain wall vacuum. Such solutions must be inhomogeneous, depending on the orbifold coordinate as well as on time. We present two examples of this new type of cosmological solution, obtained by separation of variables. The first example represents the analog of a rolling radii solution with the radii specifying the geometry of the domain wall pair. This is generalized in the second example to include a nontrivial Ramond-Ramond scalar.
dc.description37 pages, LaTex, Lectures presented at the Advanced School on Cosmology and Particle Physics, Peniscola, Spain, June 1998
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812052
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812052
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55835
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleCosmology and Heterotic M-Theory in Five-Dimensions
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