Testing string cosmology with gravity wave detectors

Abstract

The general properties of the gravity wave backgrounds of cosmological origin are reviewed and briefly discussed, with emphasis on the relic background expected from an early pre-big bang phase typical of string cosmology models.

13 pages, LATEX, three figures included using EPSFIG. Talk given at the "Second Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Wawes" (CERN, 1-4 July 1997). To be published in the Proceedings (World Scientific, Singapore), eds E. Coccia et al. An updated collection of papers on the pre-big bang scenario is available at http://www.to.infn.it/teorici/gasperini