Exact integrability of strings in D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime.
Exact integrability of strings in D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime.
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D 维德西特时空中弦的精确可积性。
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1993
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Sánchez
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de Vega HJ;Sánchez
We show the complete integrability of the string propagation in [ital D]-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. We find that the string equations of motion, which correspond to a noncompact O([ital D],1)-symmetric [sigma] model, plus the string constraints, are equivalent to a generalized sinh-Gordon equation. In [ital D]=2 this is the Liouville equation, in [ital D]=3 this is the standard sinh-Gordon equation, and in [ital D]=4 this equation is related to the [ital B][sub 2] Toda model. We show that the presence of instability is a general exact feature of strings in de Sitter space, as a direct consequence of the strong instability of the generalized sinh-Gordon Hamiltonian (which is unbounded from below), irrespective of any approximative scheme. We exhibit Baecklund transformations for this generalized sinh-Gordon equation, which relate expanding and shrinking string solutions. We find all classical solutions in [ital D]=2 and physically analyze them. In [ital D]=3 and [ital D]=4, we find the asymptotic behaviors of the solutions in the instability regime. The exact solutions exhibit asymptotically all the characteristic features of string instability: namely, the logarithmic dependence of the cosmic time [ital u] on the world sheet time [tau] for [ital u][r arrow][plus minus][infinity], the stretching (or the shrinking)more » of the proper string size, and the proportionality between [tau] and the conformal time.« less