Published November 28, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Cosmological Implications of the String Theory Landscape

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astrononmy, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3255 (United States)

Description

Progress in string theory has resulted in a whole landscape of vacua solutions.In this talk I explore the cosmological implications of the landscape, based on the dynamics of the wavefunction of the universe propagating on it. The landscape is taken as the phase space of the initial conditions since every of its vacua can potentially give rise to a universe. A superselection rule on the landscape phase space emerges when we include the backreaction of massive long wavelengths and the quantum dynamics of gravitational and matter degrees of freedom. This rule selects only high energy patches which survive the collapse induced by the gravitational instability of massive perturbations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
878
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 315-322
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
2. international conference on the dark side of the universe
Acronym
DSU 2006
Dates
20-24 Jun 2006
Place
Madrid (Spain)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38063004
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
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Conference
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; PHASE SPACE; STRING MODELS; SUPERSELECTION RULES; UNIVERSE; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FUNCTIONS; INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTICLE MODELS; PLASMA INSTABILITY; QUARK MODEL; SELECTION RULES; SPACE

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(c) 2006 American Institute of Physics