FROM p-BRANES TO COSMOLOGY
- 20 October 1999
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Vol. 14 (26) , 4121-4142
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x99001925
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 generalized to nonextremal ones, and show how wide classes of recently discussed cosmological models can be mapped into nonextremal 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 generalized dimensional reduction of string theory or M theory.Keywords
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