Dark Matter in Models of String Cosmology

Abstract

The origin of dark matter in the universe may be weakly interacting scalar particles produced by amplification of quantum fluctuations during a period of dilaton-driven inflation. We present two interesting cases, the case of small fluctuations, and the resulting nonthermal spectrum, and the case of large fluctuations of a field with a periodic potential, the QCD axion.

Comments: 13 pages LaTeX, uses aipproc.sty, talk presented by R. Brustein at COSMO 98, Asilomar, California, November 1998