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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 77, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.126011
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We study quintessence-driven, spatially flat, expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies that arise naturally from string theory formulated in a supercritical number of spacetime dimensions. The tree-level potential of the string theory produces an equation of state at the threshold between accelerating and decelerating cosmologies, and the resulting spacetime is globally conformally equivalent to Minkowski space. We demonstrate that exact solutions exist with a condensate of the closed-string tachyon, the simplest of which is a Liouville wall moving at the speed of light. We rely on the existence of this solution to derive constraints on the couplings of the tachyon to the dilaton and metric in the string theory effective action. In particular, we show that the tachyon dependence of the Einstein term must be nontrivial.
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