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String Cosmology and Chaos

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We briefly review two aspects of string cosmology: (1) the presence of chaos in the generic cosmological solutions of the tree-level low-energy effective actions coming out of string theory, and (2) the remarkable link between the latter chaos and the Weyl groups of some hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras.

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    Vincent Rivasseau

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Damour, T. (2003). String Cosmology and Chaos. In: Iagolnitzer, D., Rivasseau, V., Zinn-Justin, J. (eds) International Conference on Theoretical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7907-1_23

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