String theory and quintessence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1-16

  Hellerman, Simeon ^a   Kaloper, Nemanja ^a,b   Susskind, Leonard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; M Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744507717     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/003     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. T. Banks, W. Fischler and L. Motl, Dualities versus singularities, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (1999) 019 [hep-th/9811194].
2. Supernova Cosmology Project collaboration, S. Perlmutter et al., Measurements of the cosmological parameters ω and λ from the first 7 supernovae at z  0.35, Astrophys. J. 483 (1997) 565 [astro-ph/9608192];
3. A.G. Riess et al., Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant, Astron. J., 116 (1998) 1009;
4. P.M. Garnavich et al., Supernova limits on the cosmic equation of state, Astrophys. J. 509 (1998) 74 [astro-ph/9806396];
5. Supernova Cosmology Project collaboration, S. Perlmutter et al., Measurements of ω and λ from 42 high-redshift supernovae, Astrophys. J. 517 (1999) 565 [astro-ph/9812133].
6. T. Banks, Cosmological breaking of supersymmetry or little lambda goes back to the future, 2, hep-th/0007146;
7. On isolated vacua and background independence, hep-th/0011255;
8. T. Banks and W. Fischler, M-theory observables for cosmological space-times, hep-th/0102077.
9. L. Susskind and N. Toumbas, Wilson loops as precursors, Phys. Rev. D 61 (2000) 044001 [hep-th/9909013].
10. E. Witten, private communication.
11. R. Bousso, Bekenstein bounds in de Sitter and flat space, J. High Energy Phys. 04 (2001) 035 [hep-th/0012052].
12. J. Maldacena and C. Nunez, Supergravity description of field theories on curved manifolds and a no go theorem, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 16 (2001) 822 [hep-th/0007018].
13. B. Ratra and P.J. E. Peebles, Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field, Phys. Rev. D 37 (1988) 3406.
14. R.R. Caldwell, R. Dave and P.J. Steinhardt, Cosmological imprint of an energy component with general equation-of-state, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 1582 [astro-ph/9708069];
15. L. Min Wang, R.R. Caldwell, J.P. Ostriker and P.J. Steinhardt, Cosmic concordance and quintessence, Astrophys. J. 530 (2000) 17 [astro-ph/9901388].
16. S.W. Hawking and G.F.R. Ellis, The large scale structure of space-time, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1972.
17. W. Fischler and L. Susskind, Holography and cosmology, hep-th/9806039.
18. R. Bousso, A covariant entropy conjecture, J. High Energy Phys. 07 (1999) 004 [hep-th/9905177];
19. Holography in general space-times, J. High Energy Phys. 06 (1999) 028 [hep-th/9906022];
20. The holographic principle for general backgrounds, Class. and Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 997 [hep-th/9911002].
21. P. Breitenlohner and D.Z. Freedman, Positive energy in anti-de Sitter backgrounds and gauged extended supergravity, Phys. Lett. B 115 (1982) 197;
22. Stability in gauged extended supergravity, Ann. Phys. (NY) 144 (1982) 249.
23. P.K. Townsend, Positive energy and the scalar potential in higher dimensional (su-per)gravity theories, Phys. Lett. B 148 (1984) 55;
24. K. Skenderis and P.K. Townsend, Gravitational stability and renormalization-group flow, Phys. Lett. B 468 (1999) 46 [hep-th/9909070].
25. W. Fischler, A. Kashani-Poor, R. McNees and S. Paban, The acceleration of the universe, a challenge for string theory, hep-th/0104181.