On Inflation in String Theory

By R. Kallosh. 2003

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In this talk we describe recent progress in construction of inflationary models in the context of string theory with flux compactification and moduli stabilization. We also discuss a possibility to test string theory by cosmological observations.

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

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Liam McAllister
2. D. Baumann
3. Andrei Linde
4. E. Pajer
5. Marco Peloso
6. R. Kallosh
7. Xingang Chen
8. Eran Palti

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Liam McAllister
2. D. Baumann
3. Andrei Linde
4. R. Kallosh
5. E. Pajer
6. Eran Palti
7. Marco Peloso
8. Xingang Chen

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Marco Peloso
2. N. Barnaby
3. R. Namba
4. Thomas W. Grimm
5. D. Robbins
6. S. Paban
7. Raphael Flauger
8. T. Wrase

Citations in the corpus

• Cosmology with nilpotent superfields (2014, background): “It was suggested in [88, 89] that in such case, if the modulus z0 is stabilized, one might expand such a logarithm.”
• Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single-field inflation (2006, background): “Some fairly recent reviews with further references are [38, 39].”
• 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, background): “An explicit numerical evaluation indicates the presence of a non-supersymmetric axion valley [43].”
• Towards an explicit model of D-brane inflation (2007, background): “[6, 13, 8]) is that because of the vast number and complexity of string vacua, in some nonzero fraction of them it should be the case that the corrections to the inflaton potential cancel to high precision, (1)For other approaches to string inflation, see e.”
• Phenomenology of a pseudo-scalar inflaton: naturally large nongaussianity (2011, methodology): “See, for example, reference [49] for a review.”
• 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].”