Stabilizing moduli with flux in brane gas cosmology

Jin Young Kim (Kunsan National Univ.)CosPA 2009, Melbourne

Based onarXiv:0908.4314[hep-th];PRD 78, 066003 (arXiv:0804.0073[hep-th]);PLB 652, 43 (hep-th/0608131).

Moduli and string phenomenology

moduli• Parameters labeling the geometry of the internal space (volume moduli,

shape moduli, dilaton, axion) • VEV of moduli should be fixed if string theory is not to contradict with th

e observed phenomena.

Particle phenomenology• Coupling constant of elementary particles are determined by the VEV of

moduli.

Cosmology • Scale factor of the extra dimension should be finite. • VEV of dilaton determines the gravitational coupling constant.

Cosmology based on string theory: D-brane inflation, Moduli inflation, cyclic and ekpyrotic scenarios, mirage co

smology, string/brane gas cosmology, …

String gas picture of string cosmology- BV scenario [Brandenberger and Vafa, NPB 316, 391 (1989)]

Initial singularity: • Minimum scale by T-duality (winding momentum)

Spacetime dimension: • Early universe - hot and small with a gas of strings• All directions can fluctuate about the self-dual radius.• Directions without winding modes can expand. • Strings can be annihilated efficiently in three or lower spatial dim

ensions. 2(1+1)=> (3+1)

Brane gas cosmology: BV scenario with D-branes

• String cosmology with D-brane gas• Hierarchy in sizes of the extra (wrapped) dimensions

Motivation: running dilaton in radion stabilization

• String cosmology is described by the coupled system of the metric and dilaton (Gravitational constant is fixed by VEV of dilaton)

• Studies on BGC were concentrated on the stabilization of radion (volume modulus) assuming that the dilaton can be stabilized.

• Are dilaton and radion stabilizations compatible? Yes, with string gas and gaugino condensation. [Danos et al, arXiv: 0802.1577, PRD 77, 126009 (2008)]

• Stabilize dynamically both the dilaton and the radion in the Einstein frame with brane gas and flux

Late stage of BV scenario

• After the thermal equilibrium is broken, 3 dimensions: unwrapped, expand (D-3) dimensions: wrapped by gas of branes of dimensions less t

han or equal to (D-3) Assumption: each type of brane gas makes a comparable contri

bution to EM tensor => effectively (D-3) brane gas.

• Include the running of dilaton.

• To prevent collapse, introduce RR flux in the transverse directions

Brane gas formalism with flux

Action in string frame

RR field dilaton

Bulk action:

Brane action(DBI):

Total action: bulk + 6 brane

negligible when the temperature is low enough

induced metric

antisymmetric tensor gauge field

Action in the Einstein frame frame

• Brane action acts not only as a source term for gravity but also provides potential for dilaton and radion. • F^2 term give potential term for radion and dilaton.• Singularity at the position of the brane along the transverse direction can be smoothed out by uniform gas approximation.• Consider the simple case where it is a constant to incorporate the cosmological constant.

One-dimensional effective action

Metric ansatz:

Induced metric:

Static brane : brane time = bulk time

To satisfy the Bianchi identity, take the RR field

Equations of motion

solution:

integration constant

Equations of motion

Equations of motion for isotropic 3 and (D-3) subspace

Assume 3-dimensional space and (D-3)-dimensional space are isotropic

: redefinition of parameters

Equations of motion in terms of volume factors

volume of large space

volume of extra space

Motion of a particle under potential

dilaton potential

Volume factors for fixed dilaton

For fixed dilaton:

Second derivative equations for volume factors

Motion of particles under potential:

Expanding three-volume for fixed dilaton

Condition for a monotonic expansion of :

Three dimensions expand monotonically

Radion stabilization for fixed dilaton

Condition for a confining potential for :

for

Perturbation around

Radion can be stabilized for fixed dilaton

Dilaton stabilization for fixed radion

Dilaton perturbatiuon: Solution:

i) : are complex with their real parts negative

Damped oscillation

ii) : are negative Exponentially decreasing

dilaton perturbation disappears exponentially

Dilaton and radion are stabilized separately if one is fixed.

Perturb both moduli around their critical value.

Ignore the damping terms since they always contribute to the stabilization positively.

Ignore the terms proportional to due to the inflation in three dimensions.

Stabilizing both moduli simultaneously

Eigenvalues of coupled harmonic oscillation

stability condition : are real and positive

satisfied for

Radion and dilaton can be stabilized simultaneously

Sources of moduli potential terms in string theory: curvature, D-branes, orientifold, flux, nonperturbative effects (instanton, gaugino condensation), tachyon, orbifold, etc

Criteria for the stabilization of a single scalar field

: existence of a critical point

: well-type, confining force

For coupled system, we can check the stability perturbatively from their critical value.

Find completely explicit examples for stabilizing moduli.

Discussion

• The anisotropic evolution of the spatial dimensions and the stability of the extra dimensions and dilaton is possible with brane gas and RR-flux.

• The effective potentials of three-dimensional volume is runaway type so that they can expand indefinitely.

• The effective potentials of radion and dilaton show global minima that can provide stabilizing forces.

• Dilaton and radion perturbations around their minima are stable.

Summary