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Keiji Kikkawa

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arXiv2003

Correlation between momentum modes and winding modes in Brandenberger-Vafa's string cosmological model

Brandenberger and Vafa have proposed the string cosmological model based on T-duality. In this model, they took the toroidal target space and introduced the new position \tilde{x} conjugate to the winding mode, in addition to the position x conjugate to the momentum mode. In this way they can describe a universe larger than the string scale with the coordinate x and one smaller with the coordinate \tilde{x}. Resultingly, they never encounter the singularity seen in the standard Big Bang scenario. The most interesting phenomenon in this model is the transition from \tilde{x}-space to x-space when the size of universe is nearly the string scale. Here, we define the dispersion of the momentum number m times the winding number w as the `correlation' of momentum modes and winding modes. Then using the statistical mechanics of strings on a torus, we calculate the correlation in low and high temperature limits, and we consider the possibility that we can observe this effect today, but we will see that this is unlikely.

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arXiv1998

T-Duality and Time development of a (2+1)-Dimensional String Universe

The time development of a model of (2+1)-dimensional torus universe is studied based on background field equations which follow from a string theory. The metrics in various cases are characterized by a real parameter which specifies a ratio of the lengths of two independent cycles. When the parameter is a rational number, the space is asymptotically stretched along a cycle while the other cycle kept finite. When the parameter is an irrational number, the lengths of two cycles, as well as the space volume (area), grow in proportion to the proper time $t$ for an observer sitting at rest in this universe in the asymptotic region.

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arXiv1994

Dynamical Gauge Field induced by the Berry Phase Mechanism

Some part of the local gauge symmetries in the low energy region, say, lower than GUT or the Planck energy can be an induced symmetry describable with the holonomy fields associated with a topologically non-trivial structure of partially compactified space. In the case where a six dimensional space is compactified by the Kaluza-Klein mechanism into a product of the four dimensional Minkowski space $M_{4}$ and a two dimensional Riemann surface with the genus $g$, $Σ_{g}$, we show that, in a limit where the compactification mass scale is sent to infinity, a model lagrangian with a U(1) gauge symmetry produces the dynamical gauge fields in $M_{4}$ with a product of $g$ U(1)'s symmetry, i.e., U(1)$\times \cdots\times$U(1). These fields are induced by a Berry phase mechanism, not by the Kaluza-Klein. The dynamical degrees of freedom of the induced fields are shown to come from the holonomies, or the solenoid potentials, associated with the cycles of $Σ_{g}$. The production mechanism of kinetic energy terms for the induced fields are discussed in detail.

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