Cosmological Signature of Tachyon Condensation

Irina Aref'eva, Alexey Koshelev

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Abstract

We consider the dynamics of the open string tachyon condensation in a framework of the cubic fermionic String Field Theory including a non-minimal coupling with closed string massless modes, the graviton and the dilaton. Coupling of the open string tachyon and the dilaton is motivated by the open String Field Theory in a linear dilaton background and the flat space-time. We note that the dilaton gravity provides several restrictions on the tachyon condensation and show explicitly that the influence of the dilaton on the tachyon condensation is essential and provides a significant effect: oscillations of the Hubble parameter and the state parameter become of a cosmological scale. We give an estimation for the period of these oscillations (0.1-1) Gyr and note a good agreement of this period with the observed oscillations with a period (0.15-0.65) Gyr in a distribution of quasar spectra.
Original languageEnglish
Article number68
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages20
JournalJHEP
Volume2008
Issue number9
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2008

Keywords

  • String Field Theory
  • Tachyon Condensation
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

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