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Strings in singular time-dependent backgrounds

✍ Scribed by A. Giveon; E. Rabinovici; A. Sever

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
222 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0015-8208

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We review the construction of time‐dependent backgrounds with space‐like singularities. We mainly consider exact CFT backgrounds. The algebraic and geometric aspects of these backgrounds are discussed. Physical issues, results and difficulties associated with such systems are reviewed. Finally, we present some new results: a two dimensional cosmology in the presence of an Abelian gauge field described within a family of ${{SL(2)\times U(1)} \over {U(1)\times Z}}$ quotient CFTs.

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