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Power-law cosmologies in minimal and maximal gauged supergravity

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In this paper we search for accelerating power-law solutions and ekpyrotic solutions within minimal and maximal four dimensional supergravity theories. We focus on the STU model for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 and on the new CSO(p, q, r) theories, which were recently obtained exploiting electromagnetic duality, for \( \mathcal{N} \) = 8. In the minimal case we find some new ekpyrotic solutions, while in the maximal case we find some new generic power-law solutions. We do not find any new accelerating solutions for these models.

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  1. Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden

    J. Blåbäck

  2. Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands

    A. Borghese

  3. NITheP, School of Physics, and Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, WITS 2050, South Africa

    S. S. Haque

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Blåbäck, J., Borghese, A. & Haque, S.S. Power-law cosmologies in minimal and maximal gauged supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 107 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2013)107

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