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Cosmology, Inflation and the Physics of Nothing [PDF]
These four lectures cover four topics in modern cosmology: the cosmological constant, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, and cosmology as a probe of physics at the Planck scale. The underlying theme is that cosmology gives us a unique window on the ``physics of nothing,'' or the quantum-mechanical properties of the vacuum.
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Inflation in the standard cosmological model
Abstract The inflationary paradigm is now part of the standard cosmological model as a description of its primordial phase. While its original motivation was to solve the standard problems of the hot big bang model, it was soon understood that it offers a natural theory for the origin of the large-scale structure of the universe.
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jean-Philippe Uzan
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Abstract It is argued that the standard constraint ƒ⪷10 12 GeV in the axion theory and related constraints in the theories of other weakly interacting scalar fields do not apply in many versions of the inflationary universe scenario.
Andrei Linde, Andrei Linde
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Stationarity of inflation and predictions of quantum cosmology [PDF]
We describe several different regimes which are possible in inflationary cosmology. The simplest one is inflation without self-reproduction of the universe. In this scenario the universe is not stationary. The second regime, which exists in a broad class of inflationary models, is eternal inflation with the self-reproduction of inflationary domains. In
Andrei Linde, Juan Garcia-Bellido
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Lectures on string theory and cosmology
In these lectures I review recent attempts to apply string theory to cosmology, including string cosmology and various models of brane cosmology. In addition, the review includes an introduction to inflation as well as a discussion of transplanckian ...
Albrecht A Kaloper N Song Y S+74 more
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Relaxation of the cosmological constant at inflation? [PDF]
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Inflation from Susy quantum cosmology
We propose a realization of inverted hybrid inflation scenario in the context of n=2 supersymmetric quantum cosmology. The spectrum of density fluctuations is calculated in the de Sitter regimen as a function of the gravitino and the Planck mass, and ...
A. Linde+27 more
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Brane inflation: A field theory approach in background supergravity
We propose a model of inflation in the framework of brane cosmology driven by background supergravity. Starting from bulk supergravity we construct the inflaton potential on the brane and employ it to investigate for the consequences to inflationary ...
Choudhury, Sayantan, Pal, Supratik
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Cosmological Inflation: A Personal Perspective [PDF]
13 pages, 3 figures. Text based on a public lecture presented at the Academy of Athens within the activities of the Symposium "Chaos in Astronomy 2007", held in Athens Greece in September ...
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Inflation: From Theory to Observation and Back
Alan Guth introduced cosmologists to inflation at the 1980 Texas Symposium. Since, inflation has had almost as much impact on cosmology as the big-bang model itself. However, unlike the big-bang model, it has little observational support. Hopefully, that
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