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ACCELERATING COSMOLOGIES AND INFLATION FROM M/SUPERSTRING THEORIES

NOBUYOSHI OHTA

Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X05021257Cited by:90 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We review the recent developments in obtaining accelerating cosmologies and/or inflation from higher-dimensional gravitational theories, in particular superstring theories in ten dimensions and M-theory in 11 dimensions. We first discuss why it is difficult to obtain inflationary behavior in the effective low-energy theories of superstring/M-theory, i.e. supergravity theories. We then summarize interesting solutions including S-branes that give rise to accelerating cosmologies and inflationary solutions in M-theory with higher order corrections. Other approaches to inflation in the string context are also briefly discussed.

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