Compactification of the ten-dimensional heterotic superstring theory to four dimensions gives rise to two moduli potentials $V_{A}$ , $V_{B}$ , the positive semi-definiteness of which places constraints on the Euler characteristic $ \bar{\chi}$ of the internal space $\bar{g}_{\mu\nu}(y^{\xi})$ and the adiabatic index $\gamma$ of the effective matter source of energy-density $\rho$ and pressure $p = (\gamma -1)\rho$ that generates the physical four-space $g_{ij}(x^{k})$ , namely $\bar{\chi} < 0$ , $4/3 \leq \gamma \leq 2$ , or $\bar{\chi} > 0$ , $1 \leq \gamma \leq 4/3$ . Here, we show how fermion-bilinear condensation in the internal space, first put forward by Helayel-Neto and Smith, determines the field $\tilde{\beta} \equiv A_{\rm r} B_{\rm r}^{3}$ , thus reducing the moduli space to a single canonical field $\tilde{\sigma}=2\sigma_{B}$ with a potential ˜ , which is positive semi-definite under the same conditions that ensure positive semi-definiteness of $V_{A}$ , $V_{B}$ , and has a minimum at a value of $\tilde{\beta}$ that is approximately constant far from the Planck era at $t \gg t_{\rm P}$ . The fields $\sigma_{A}$ , $\sigma_{B}$ , which are canonically normalized in the zero-slope limit, are modified by contributions originating from the higher-derivative gravitational terms $\alpha^{\prime} \hat{\mathcal{R}}_{\rm E}^{2}$ and $\alpha^{\prime 3} \hat{\mathcal{R}}^{4}$ , but the associated kinetic energy remains positive for times $t \gtrsim t_{\rm P}/2$ , guaranteeing classical stability of the solution, since the generalized indeterminacy principle implies a minimum physically measurable time $t_{0} \approx 50 t_{\rm P}$ for the superstring theory.
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