Nonperturbative de Sitter vacua via α′ corrections

© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company. The higher-derivative α′ corrections consistent with O(d,d) duality invariance can be completely classified for cosmological, purely time-dependent backgrounds. This result is used to show that there are duality invariant theories featuring string-frame de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hohm, Olaf, Zwiebach, Barton
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132533.2
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Summary:© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company. The higher-derivative α′ corrections consistent with O(d,d) duality invariance can be completely classified for cosmological, purely time-dependent backgrounds. This result is used to show that there are duality invariant theories featuring string-frame de Sitter vacua as solutions that are nonperturbative in α′, thus suggesting that classical string theory may realize de Sitter solutions in an unexpected fashion.