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Status of String Cosmology: Phenomenological Aspects

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String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale

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Inspired by the basic ideas of string theory, we have recently started the investigation of a cosmological scenario in which the standard big-bang singularity is smoothed out and is replaced by a phase of maximal (finite) curvature. Such a phase is preceeded in time by a “pre-big-bang” epoch [1-3], which has (approximately) specular properties with respect to the present phase of standard decelerated evolution.

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    A. Zichichi

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Gasperini, M. (1996). Status of String Cosmology: Phenomenological Aspects. In: Sánchez, N., Zichichi, A. (eds) String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol 476. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0237-4_15

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