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arxiv: hep-th/9610252 · v2 · pith:UTL7H3RKnew · submitted 1996-10-31 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Resolution of Cosmological Singularities

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keywords resolvedsingularitiessolutionsapparentassociatedbangboundclass
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We show that a class of 3+1 dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies can be embedded within a variety of solutions of string theory. In some realizations the apparent singularities associated with the big bang or big crunch are resolved at non-singular horizons of higher-dimensional quasi-black hole solutions (with compactified real time); in others plausibly they are resolved at D-brane bound states having no conventional space-time interpretation.

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