Inflation and String Theory

Abstract

We review cosmological inflation and its realization in quantum field theory and in string theory. This material is a portion of a book, also entitled "Inflation and String Theory", to be published by Cambridge University Press.

349 pages, 48 figures. Draft of a book to be published by Cambridge University Press. Comments welcomed

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• A New Target for Cosmic Axion Searches
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• Signs of Analyticity in Single-Field Inflation
• Axion Inflation with an SU(2) Gauge Field: Detectable Chiral Gravity Waves
• Axion-Dilaton Destabilization and the Hubble Tension
• Relaxion Monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
• A Flux-Scaling Scenario for High-Scale Moduli Stabilization in String Theory
• The Inflationary Wavefunction from Analyticity and Factorization
• Instantons and infinite distances
• Examining the end of inflation with primordial black holes mass distribution and gravitational waves
• The stochastic spectator
• Warping the Weak Gravity Conjecture
• Distance, de Sitter and Trans-Planckian Censorship conjectures: the status quo of Warm Inflation
• dS Vacua and the Swampland
• Encyclopaedia Curvatonis
• Planckian Axions in String Theory
• Scratches from the Past: Inflationary Archaeology through Features in the Power Spectrum of Primordial Fluctuations
• Universal features of quantum bounce in loop quantum cosmology
• F-theory flux vacua at large complex structure
• O$(d,d)$ covariant String Cosmology to all orders in ${\alpha }^{\prime }$
• The Flux-Scaling Scenario: De Sitter Uplift and Axion Inflation
• Multimessenger Cosmology: correlating CMB and SGWB measurements
• Propagating Speed of Primordial Gravitational Waves
• Fuzzy Dark Matter Candidates from String Theory
• Nonsingular Ekpyrotic Cosmology with a Nearly Scale-Invariant Spectrum of Cosmological Perturbations and Gravitational Waves
• Shift-Symmetric Orbital Inflation: single field or multi-field?
• Special Points of Inflation in Flux Compactifications
• Ekpyrotic Cosmology with a Zero-Shear S-Brane
• Towards Axion Monodromy Inflation with Warped KK-Modes
• Multifield inflation beyond $N_{\mathrm{field}}=2$: non-Gaussianities and single-field effective theory
• D6-branes and axion monodromy inflation
• New potentials for string axion inflation
• Reheating after S-Brane Ekpyrosis
• Reheating and Dark Radiation after Fibre Inflation
• Schwinger effect and backreaction in de Sitter spacetime
• Can all the infrared secular growth really be understood as increase of classical statistical variance?
• ${\alpha }^{\prime }$-Cosmology: solutions and stability analysis
• Generating primordial fluctuations from modified teleparallel gravity with local Lorentz-symmetry breaking
• Four-mode squeezed states: two-field quantum systems and the symplectic group $\mathrm{Sp}(4,\mathbb{R})$
• Systematics of type IIB moduli stabilisation with odd axions
• No-go theorem for inflation in an extended Ricci-inverse gravity model
• Constraining Curvatonic Reheating
• A Note on String Excitations and the Higuchi Bound
• Eternal Inflation, Entropy Bounds and the Swampland
• Ultralight Bosonic Field Mass Bounds from Astrophysical Black Hole Spin
• Higher-Curvature Corrections and Tensor Modes
• The Higgs field and early universe cosmology: a (brief) review
• Interferometer Constraints on the Inflationary Field Content
• Inflation from periodic extra dimensions
• Disformally coupled inflation
• Holography for the very early Universe and the classic puzzles of Hot Big Bang cosmology
• Inflation Expels Runaways
• Higgs inflation with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity
• Generalized scalar-tensor theory of gravity reconstruction from physical potentials of a scalar field
• Small field models with gravitational wave signature supported by CMB data
• Axion inflation with cross-correlated axion isocurvature perturbations
• Harmonic Hybrid Inflation
• Non-Gaussianities in a two-field generalization of Natural Inflation
• Stochastic inflation and primordial black holes
• The Super-Planckian Axion Strikes Back
• Chiral primordial gravitational waves in extended theories of Scalar-Tensor gravity
• Conceptual Challenges on the Road to the Multiverse
• Limits on Entanglement Effects in the String Landscape from Planck and BICEP/Keck Data
• Next step in gravity and cosmology: fundamental theory or data-driven models?
• Probing Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves
• Reheating constraints to modulus mass for single field inflationary models
• Time-dependent toroidal compactification proposals and the Bianchi type II model: classical and quantum solutions
• Enhancement of axion decay constants in type IIA theory?
• Non-perturbative scalar potential inspired by type IIA strings on rigid CY
• Effective Potential for Revolving D-branes
• Entanglement entropy of cosmological perturbations for S-brane Ekpyrosis
• Spinning Guest Fields during Inflation: Leftover Signatures
• Early Universe Cosmology, Effective Supergravity, and Invariants of Algebraic Forms
• High-harmonic cosmic strings and gravitational waves
• Kination cosmology from scalar fields and gravitational-wave signatures
• Non-Gaussianity in D3-brane inflation
• Non-canonical scalar field in low anisotropy universe with intermediate inflation
• Testing Inflationary Cosmology