Published November 28, 2006
| Version v1
Journal article
Cosmological Implications of the String Theory Landscape
Creators
- 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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2409103;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0609157v1;
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;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- 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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics