2003/12/16 by G. Veneziano · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2004/03/004
published as JCAP 0403 (2004) 004 · 10 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2003/12/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
I motivate a proposal for modeling, at weak string coupling, the ``Big Bounce" transition from a growing-curvature phase to standard (FRW) cosmology in terms of a pressure-less dense gas of "string-holes" (SH), string states lying on the correspondence curve between strings and black holes. During this phase SH evolve in such a way that temperature and (string-frame) curvature remain O(Ms) and (a cosmological version of) the holographic entropy bound remains saturated. This reasoning also appears to imply a new interpretation of the Hagedorn phase transition in string theory.