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Recurrent Acceleration in Dilaton-Axion Cosmology
A class of Einstein-dilaton-axion models is found for which almost all flat
expanding homogeneous and isotropic universes undergo recurrent periods of
acceleration. We also extend recent results on eternally accelerating open
universes.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures. minor changes. Version 4 corrects a figure
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p-Brane Democracy
The ten or eleven dimensional origin of central charges in the N=4 or N=8
supersymmetry algebra in four dimensions is reviewed: while some have a
standard Kaluza-Klein interpretation as momenta in compact dimensions, most
arise from -form charges in the higher-dimensional supersymmetry algebra
that are carried by -brane `solitons'. Although is singled out by
superstring perturbation theory, U-duality of N=8 superstring compactifications
implies a complete `-brane democracy' of the full non-perturbative theory.
An `optimally democratic' perturbation theory is defined to be one in which the
perturbative spectrum includes all particles with zero magnetic charge. Whereas
the heterotic string is optimally democratic in this sense, the type II
superstrings are not, although the 11-dimensional supermembrane might be.Comment: Some typos, and typographical problems, of previous revised version
corrected. 15 pp. Latex. This paper will appear in the proceedings of the
March 95 PASCOS/Johns Hopkins conferenc
Axion-Dilaton Domain Walls and Fake Supergravity
Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate domain-wall solutions of a
two-parameter family of models in which gravity is coupled to an axion, and to
a dilaton with an exponential potential of either sign. A complete global
analysis is presented for (i) constant axion and (ii) flat walls, including a
study of bifurcations and a new exact domain-wall solution with non-constant
axion. We reconsider `fake supergravity' issues in light of these results. We
show, by example, how domain walls determine multi-valued superpotentials that
branch at stationary points that are not stationary points of the potential,
and we apply this result to potentials with anti-de Sitter vacua. We also show
by example that `adapted' truncation to a single-scalar model is sometimes
inconsistent, and we propose a `generalized' fake supergravity formalism that
applies in some such cases.Comment: 43pp, 19 figures; minor corrections and extensions; one additional
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The Manifestly Sl(2;Z)-covariant Superstring
We present a manifestly Sl(2;Z)-covariant action for the type IIB
superstring, and prove kappa-symmetry for on-shell IIB supergravity
backgrounds.Comment: 13 pages, plain tex. Two minor corrections. Reference adde
Super D-branes
We present a manifestly Lorentz invariant, spacetime supersymmetric, and
`-invariant' worldvolume action for all type II Dirichlet p-branes,
, in a general type II supergravity background, including massive
backgrounds in the IIA case. The cases are rederived from D=11. The
case provides a supersymmetrization of the D=10 Born-Infeld action.Comment: 27pp. Typos corrected. To appear in Nucl. Phys.
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