Lectures on cosmic inflation and its potential stringy realizations

By C. Burgess. 2007

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These notes present a brief introduction to hot big bang cosmology and cosmic inflation, together with a selection of some recent attempts to embed inflation into string theory. They provide a partial description of lectures presented at the RTN Winter School at CERN in January 2007, as well as in courses at Dubrovnik in August 2006 and at Cargèse in August 2007. Given the substantial overlap between these three courses, the same paper will also appear as part of the proceedings of the latter two schools. It is aimed at graduate students with a working knowledge of quantum field theory, but who are unfamiliar with the details of cosmology or string theory.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Political Science and International Relations

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D3-brane potentials from fluxes in AdS/CFT (2010, unknown): “[7, 8, 10–12]).”
Modified Gravity and Cosmology (2011, background): “For further details on the latest attempts to embed inflation in higher dimensional theories, we refer the reader to [807, 1048, 812, 666, 218, 873, 166].”
Axion inflation in type II string theory (2007, unknown): “Our aim is to identify ca = θa/fa with axion fields in a string compactification.”
Searching for slow-roll moduli inflation in massive type IIA supergravity with metric fluxes (2008, methodology): “After the ground breaking work of KKLT provided a mechanism to stabilize all moduli in the context of type IIB string theory [3], a lot of work has been done toward understanding inflation in string theory setups that are under control [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [2].”