Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Non-BPS D9-branes in the early universe

Creators

  • 1. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801 (Japan)

Description

We have investigated the finite temperature systems of non-BPS D-branes and D-brane-anti-D-brane pairs in the previous papers. It has been shown that non-BPS D9-branes and D9- D-bar 9-bar pairs become stable near the Hagedorn temperature on the basis of boundary string field theory. This implies that there is a possibility that these spacetime-filling branes exist in the early universe. We study the time evolution of the universe in the presence of non-BPS D9-branes on the basis of boundary string field theory in this paper. We try to construct the following scenario for the early universe: The universe expands at high temperature and the open string gas on the non-BPS D9-branes dominates the total energy of the system at first. The temperature decreases as the universe expands. Then the non-BPS D9-branes become unstable at low temperature and decay through tachyon condensation. We obtain some classical solutions for Einstein gravity and dilaton gravity in the very simple cases

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=03/a=070/jhep032006070.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. 070
ISSN
1126-6708