Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations
arXiv:0708.2865 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/21/S04
Abstract
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 in courses at Dubrovnik in August 2006, at CERN in January 2007 and at Cargese in August 2007. They are aimed at graduate students with a working knowledge of quantum field theory, but who are unfamiliar with the details of cosmology or of string theory.
68 pages, lectures given at Dubrovnik, Aug 2006; CERN, January 2007; and Cargese, Aug 2007
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