SCALE FACTOR DUALITY FOR CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM STRINGS

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VENEZIANO, G
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[1] CERN
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)90055-U
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Duality under inversion of the cosmological scale factor is discussed both for the classical motion of strings in cosmological backgrounds and for genus zero, low energy effective actions. The string-modified, Einstein-Friedmann equations are then shown to possess physically-inequivalent, duality-related solutions which generically describe the "decay" of an initial, perturbative, flat D = 10 superstring vacuum towards a more interesting strong-coupling state through an appealing pre-big-bang cosmological scenario.
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