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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, gr-qc
Abstract:
In pre-big-bang string cosmology one uses a phase of dilaton-driven inflation
to stretch an initial (microscopic) spatial patch to the (much larger) size of
the big-bang fireball. We show that the dilaton-driven inflationary phase does
not naturally iron out the initial classical tensor inhomogeneities unless the
initial value of the string coupling is smaller than 10^(-35).