Title

Cosmological Moduli Dynamics

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Scott Watson, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Brian Greene, Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY
Simon Judes, Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY
Amanda Weltman, Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY

Document Type

Article

Date

6-4-2007

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Low energy effective actions arising from string theory typically contain many scalar fields, some with a very complicated potential and others with no potential at all. The evolution of these scalars is of great interest. Their late time values have a direct impact on low energy observables, while their early universe dynamics can potentially source inflation or adversely affect big bang nucleosynthesis. Recently, classical and quantum methods for fixing the values of these scalars have been introduced. The purpose of this work is to explore moduli dynamics in light of these stabilization mechanisms. In particular, we explore a truncated low energy effective action that models the neighborhood of special points (or more generally loci) in moduli space, such as conifold points, where extra massless degrees of freedom arise. We find that the dynamics has a surprisingly rich structure - including the appearance of chaos - and we find a viable mechanism for trapping some of the moduli.

Additional Information

35 pages, 14 figures, references added More informaton at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702220

Recommended Citation

Watson, Scott; Greene, Brian; Judes, Simon; and Weltman, Amanda, "Cosmological Moduli Dynamics" (2007). Physics - All Scholarship. 410.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/410

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org