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A numerical simulation of pre-big bang cosmology

Jnanadeva Maharana1, Gabriele Veneziano1 and Enrico Onofri2

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We analyse numerically the onset of pre-big bang inflation in an inhomogeneous, spherically symmetric Universe. Adding a small dilatonic perturbation to a trivial (Milne) background, we find that suitable regions of space undergo dilaton-driven inflation and quickly become spatially flat (Ω→1). Numerical calculations are pushed close enough to the big bang singularity to allow cross checks against previously proposed analytic asymptotic solutions.


Keywords

Physics of the Early Universe

Superstring Vacua

String Duality

PACS

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

11.25.Tq Gauge/string duality

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 04 ( 1 March 1998)

Received 16 February 1998, accepted for publication 31 March 1998

Published 14 May 1998



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