Lectures on string/brane cosmology

Abstract

An overview is presented of some cosmological aspects of string theory. Recent developments are emphasised, especially the attempts to derive inflation or alternatives to inflation from the dynamics of branes in string theory. Time dependent backgrounds with potential cosmological implications, such as those provided by negative tension branes and S-branes and the rolling string tachyon are also discussed.

75 pages, 29 figures, lectures delivered in January 2002 at the third RTN school on ``The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions'', Utrecht

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• Strings in Time-Dependent Orbifolds
• Decay of Unstable D-branes with Electric Field
• Rolling Tachyon in Brane World Cosmology from Superstring Field Theory
• On T-Duality in Brane Gas Cosmology
• Cosmological Spacetimes from Negative Tension Brane Backgrounds
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• Scalar Speed Limits and Cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration
• Brane-world gravity
• Toward Realistic Intersecting D-Brane Models
• Primordial Non-Gaussianities from Inflation Models
• Inflationary Cosmology
• Dynamical systems applied to cosmology: dark energy and modified gravity
• Cosmology and Brane Worlds: A Review
• Particle physics models of inflation and curvaton scenarios
• Brane World Cosmology
• Racetrack Inflation
• The Production, Spectrum and Evolution of Cosmic Strings in Brane Inflation
• Fibre Inflation: Observable Gravity Waves from IIB String Compactifications
• Dynamics of warped compactifications and the shape of the warped landscape
• Loop Corrections to Volume Moduli and Inflation in String Theory
• Inflation from Warped Space
• Progress in D-brane model building
• Inflationary Cosmology: Exploring the Universe from the Smallest to the Largest Scales
• Power-law expansion in k-essence cosmology
• M-Theory Inflation from Multi M5-Brane Dynamics
• On Inflation in String Theory
• Gravity Waves from Tachyonic Preheating after Hybrid Inflation
• Fundamental cosmic strings
• Strongly Coupled Perturbations in Two-Field Inflationary Models
• Inflation in Gauss-Bonnet Brane Cosmology
• On the Explicit Construction and Statistics of Calabi-Yau Flux Vacua
• On Slow-roll Moduli Inflation in Massive IIA Supergravity with Metric Fluxes
• Multiple inflation and the WMAP 'glitches'
• Prospects for direct detection of primordial gravitational waves
• Warped Reheating in Brane-Antibrane Inflation
• Inflating in a Better Racetrack
• An Inflationary Model in String Theory
• Bouncing and Accelerating Solutions in Nonlocal Stringy Models
• String Inflation After Planck 2013
• Accelerating Cosmologies and Inflation from M/Superstring Theories
• Realistic D-Brane Models on Warped Throats: Fluxes, Hierarchies and Moduli Stabilization
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• Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations
• Non-minimally Coupled Quintom Model Inspired by String Theory
• Comparison of Approaches to Quantum Correction of Black Hole Thermodynamics
• A Note on Crossing the Phantom Divide in Hybrid Dark Energy Model
• Saltatory de Sitter String Vacua
• DBI Inflation in the Tip Region of a Warped Throat
• SD-brane gravity fields and rolling tachyons
• Inflating in a Trough: Single-Field Effective Theory from Multiple-Field Curved Valleys
• Warped Reheating in Multi-Throat Brane Inflation
• Poly-instanton Inflation
• MSLED: A Minimal Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions Scenario
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• D-branes in Standard Model building, Gravity and Cosmology
• The Lyth Bound Revisited
• The Throat as a Randall-Sundrum Model with Goldberger-Wise Stabilization
• Hybrid Inflation and Brane-Antibrane System
• String moduli inflation: an overview
• Challenges for String Cosmology
• Numerical experiments with p F- and q D-strings: the formation of (p,q) bound states
• P-term, D-term and F-term inflation
• K fields, compactons, and thick branes
• Inflation and Brane Gases
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• Moduli Vacuum Misalignment and Precise Predictions in String Inflation
• Shift Symmetry and Inflation in Supergravity
• Dilaton Cosmology, Noncommutativity and Generalized Uncertainty Principle
• Compact self-gravitating solutions of quartic (K) fields in brane cosmology
• Observational constraints on braneworld chaotic inflation
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• Effective Field Theory Approach to String Gas Cosmology
• Big Bang Models in String Theory
• D-brane Dynamics in RR Deformation of NS5-branes Background and Tachyon Cosmology
• Brane inflation and reheating
• Modulated Reheating and Large Non-Gaussianity in String Cosmology
• Is the radion a chameleon?
• Non-minimally Coupled Tachyonic Inflation in Warped String Background
• On the evolution of tachyonic perturbations at super-Hubble scales
• M-theory cosmologies from singular Calabi-Yau compactifications
• MSSM Higgses as the source of reheating and all matter
• Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Prospects
• Branonium
• Kahler Moduli Inflation Revisited
• Late time acceleration in a deformed phase space model of dilaton cosmology
• Warped Tachyonic Inflation in Type IIB Flux Compactifications and the Open-String Completeness Conjecture
• On Power Law Inflation in DBI Models
• On the Initial Conditions for Brane Inflation
• Warped Flux Compactification and Brane Gravity
• Dynamics in nonlocal linear models in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric
• D3-brane Vacua in Stabilized Compactifications
• Cosmological backgrounds of superstring theory and Solvable Algebras: Oxidation and Branes
• Inflating with Large Effective Fields
• Wilson Line Inflation
• IR Inflation from Multiple Branes
• A Note on Poly-Instanton Effects in Type IIB Orientifolds on Calabi-Yau Threefolds
• Cosmological perturbations in SFT inspired non-local scalar field models
• Tachyon Condensation Due to Domain-Wall Annihilation in Bose-Einstein Condensates
• On higher derivative corrections to Wess-Zumino and Tachyonic actions in type II super string theory
• Models of Modular Inflation and Their Phenomenological Consequences
• Limits on primordial power spectrum resolution: An inflationary flow analysis
• Inflation from Geometrical Tachyons
• On Non-Canonical Kinetic Terms and the Tilt of the Power Spectrum
• Dynamical Cobordism and the Beginning of Time: Supercritical Strings and Tachyon Condensation
• Inflationary String Theory?
• Sneutrino condensate source for density perturbations, leptogenesis and low reheat temperature
• Dynamics of the Inflationary Flow Equations
• Localization of nonlocal cosmological models with quadratic potentials in the case of double roots
• Tachyonic Inflation in a Warped String Background
• Integrability of Supergravity Billiards and the generalized Toda lattice equation
• String Vertex Operators and Cosmic Strings
• On the Slow Roll Expansion for Brane Inflation
• Dumping inflaton energy density out of this world
• Off-shell extension of S-matrix elements and tachyonic effective actions
• Analysis of scalar perturbations in cosmological models with a non-local scalar field
• Towards a microscopic construction of flavour vacua from a space-time foam model
• Moduli Corrections to D-term Inflation
• Inflationary Constraints on Late Time Modulus Dominated Cosmology
• Intermediate inflation in Gauss-Bonnet braneworld
• An Improved Brane Anti-Brane Action from Boundary Superstring Field Theory and Multi-Vortex Solutions
• Inflation from D3-brane motion in the background of D5-branes
• Large Gravitational Waves and Lyth Bound in Multi Brane Inflation
• Cosmological Evolution of Dirac-Born-Infeld Field
• Charged black holes in generalized dilaton-axion gravity
• Accidental Inflation in the Landscape
• Reconstructing a String-Inspired Non-minimally Coupled Quintom Model
• Axionic D3-D7 Inflation
• Confronting the Moduli-Induced LSP Problem
• Inflationary slow-roll formalism and perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum Type II braneworld
• Is our Universe brany ?
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• Cosmological tensor perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum model: evolution in the near-brane limit
• Dirac Relaxation of the Israel Junction Conditions: Unified Randall-Sundrum Brane Theory
• Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity
• Coupling Hybrid Inflation to Moduli
• Warped Strings: Self-dual Flux and Contemporary Compactifications
• Cosmic Billiards with Painted Walls in Non-Maximal Supergravities: a worked out example
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• Bridging geometries and potentials in DBI cosmologies
• Inflation on an Open Racetrack
• Dilaton cosmology and the Modified Uncertainty Principle
• The Web of D-branes at Singularities in Compact Calabi-Yau Manifolds
• Towards a Stringy Resolution of the Cosmological Singularity
• Inflation by Alignment
• Brane Inflation, Solitons and Cosmological Solutions: I
• Casimir dynamics: Interactions of Surfaces with codimension >1 due to Quantum Fluctuations
• Inflationary Predictions and Moduli Masses
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• Analytic Models for the Evolution of Semilocal String Networks
• Future state of the Universe
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• Perturbations in a Holographic Universe and in Other Stiff Fluid Cosmologies
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• Confronting brane inflation with Planck and pre-Planck data
• M-Theory Moduli Space and Cosmology
• Noncommutative KKLMMT Model
• Extra-Dimensions and Dark Matter
• Dynamics of Rolling Massive Scalar Field Cosmology
• On the possibility of braneworld quintessential inflation
• One-loop Evolution of a Rolling Tachyon
• Constraints on brane inflation after Planck 2015: Impacts of the latest local measurement of the Hubble constant
• Localization of the SFT inspired Nonlocal Linear Models and Exact Solutions
• Codimension-2 brane inflation
• A Quintessentially Geometric Model
• Cosmological Solution from D-brane motion in NS5-Branes background
• An Inflationary Scenario in Intersecting Brane Models
• Towards SDp-brane Quantization
• What Planck does not tell us about inflation
• Cosmology and two-body problem of D-branes
• Brane inflation revisited after WMAP five-year results
• Matrix Quantum Mechanics on $S^1/{\mathbb{Z}}_2$
• Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation
• Origin of FRW cosmology in slow-roll inflation from noncompact Kaluza-Klein theory
• Tachyon Condensation and Brane Annihilation in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Restricted Lower-dimensional Subspace
• The end of locked inflation
• Time and "angular" dependent backgrounds from stationary axisymmetric solutions
• Sculpting the Extra Dimensions: Inflation from Codimension-2 Brane Back-reaction
• The Dynamical Evolution of 3-Space in a Higher Dimensional Steady State Universe
• Towards an Observational Appraisal of String Cosmology
• Dynamical Evolution of the Extra Dimension in Brane Cosmology
• High-Energy theory for close Randall Sundrum branes
• On the dimensional dependence of duality groups for massive p-forms
• A Tutorial on Links between Cosmic String Theory and Superstring Theory
• Towards the entropy of gravity time-dependent models via the Cardy-Verlinde formula
• On cosmologically induced hierarchies in string theory
• Emergent D-instanton as a source of Dark Energy
• Non-local Matching Condition and Scale-invariant Spectrum in Bouncing Cosmology
• Brane World Cosmological Perturbations
• Cosmological dynamics of D-cceleration
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampland Programme
• Accelerated expansion of the Universe a la the Stueckelberg mechanism
• $k$-essence for warm inflation on the brane
• Evolution of FLRW spacetime after the birth of a cosmic string
• Brane Gravitational Extension of Dirac's "Extensible Model of the Electron"
• Global Embedding of Analytic Branes into Einstein MD Bulk Cosmology
• Classical and quantum time dependent solutions in string theory
• Inflation on the Brane with Vanishing Gravity
• Comments on Higher Derivative Terms for the Tachyon Action
• 7D Randall-Sundrum cosmology, brane-bulk energy exchange and holography
• Lectures on Naturalness, String Landscape and Multiverse
• Inflation and late time acceleration designed by Stueckelberg massive photon
• On the origin of thermal string gas
• Observable predictions of generalised inflationary scenarios
• Global Embedding of Analytic Branes into ES Einstein MD Bulk Cosmology: Wormholes
• String Loop Moduli Stabilisation and Cosmology in IIB Flux Compactifications
• Unified Brane Gravity: Cosmological Dark Matter from Scale Dependent Newton Constant
• Closed inflationary universe in Patch Cosmology
• On the four-dimensional effective theories in brane-worlds
• De Sitter braneworld and gravitational waves
• Modelling Cosmic Springs with Finsler and Generalised Finsler Geometries
• On Duality Symmetry in Charged P-Form Theories
• Are latest detected events of gravitational waves in favor of some models of inflation based on string theory?
• Bare and effective fluid description in brane world cosmology
• Brane Cosmology from Heterotic String Theory
• Observer-based invariants for cosmological models
• Problem of Cosmological Singularity, Inflationary Cosmology and Gauge Theories of Gravitation
• Anisotropic Evolution Driven by Kinetic Term
• Behavior of tachyon in string cosmology based on gauged WZW model
• Primordial Fluctuations in String Cosmology
• Non-Singular Cosmology and Gauge Theories of Gravitation