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The Acceleration of the Universe, a Challenge for String Theory

W. Fischler, A. Kashani-Poor, R. McNees, S. Paban

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0104181

Abstract

Recent astronomical observations indicate that the universe is accelerating. We argue that generic quintessence models that accommodate the present day acceleration tend to accelerate eternally. As a consequence the resulting spacetimes exhibit event horizons. Hence, quintessence poses the same problems for string theory as asymptotic de Sitter spaces.

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