Prospects of Inflation

Abstract

I will discuss the development of inflationary theory and its present status, including recent progress in describing de Sitter space and inflationary universe in string theory.

23 pages, extended version of the talk at the Nobel Symposium "Cosmology and String Theory," August 2003; references added

References in corpus (4)

• Tachyons, Scalar Fields and Cosmology
• Open String Creation by S-Branes
• A Note on Inflation with Tachyon Rolling on the Gauss-Bonnet Brane
• A rolling tachyon field for both dark energy and dark halos of galaxies

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• The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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• An Inflationary Model in String Theory
• Smooth dynamical (de)-phantomization of a scalar field in simple cosmological models
• Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
• Stability properties of some perfect fluid cosmological models
• Higher order corrections of the extended Chaplygin gas cosmology with varying $G$ and $\Lambda$
• Bounds on Slow Roll at the Boundary of the Landscape
• D-Brane Dynamics Near NS5-Branes
• Testing spatial curvature and anisotropic expansion on top of the $\Lambda$CDM model
• D-Brane Dynamics in Dp-Brane Background
• The minus sign in the first law of de Sitter horizons
• Alpha-states in de Sitter space
• D-brane Dynamics in RR Deformation of NS5-branes Background and Tachyon Cosmology
• Caustic Formation in Tachyon Effective Field Theories
• Anisotropic Cosmology and (Super)Stiff Matter in Hořava's Gravity Theory
• Warped Tachyonic Inflation in Type IIB Flux Compactifications and the Open-String Completeness Conjecture
• Black hole formation in a contracting universe
• Higher derivative corrections of $f(R)$ gravity with varying equation of state in the case of variable $G$ and $\Lambda$
• De Sitter Space as a Tensor Network: Cosmic No-Hair, Complementarity, and Complexity
• Regulating Eternal Inflation II: The Great Divide
• Lee-Wick Theories at High Temperature
• The clock ambiguity and the emergence of physical laws
• Rolling Tachyon Solution in Vacuum String Field Theory
• A new rolling tachyon solution of cubic string field theory
• Cosmology of the Tachyon in Brane Inflation
• Notes on Tachyon Effective Actions and Veneziano Amplitudes
• Hologrphy and holographic dark energy model
• de Sitter equilibrium as a fundamental framework for cosmology
• Partition function for a volume of space
• The Scale-invariant Power Spectrum of Primordial Curvature Perturbation in CSTB Cosmos
• Microphysical manifestations of viscosity and consequences for anisotropies in the very early universe
• Constraining the Inflationary Equation of State
• A Stringy Correspondence Principle in Cosmology
• A Principle to Determine the Number (3 + 1) of Large Spacetime Dimensions
• Supersymmetry Breaking and the Cosmological Constant
• Interacting Ricci dark energy models with an effective $\Lambda$-term in Lyra manifold
• Forecast constraints on Anisotropic Stress in Dark Energy using gravitational-waves
• Holographic space-time and its phenomenological implications
• Fractal Holography: a geometric re-interpretation of cosmological large scale structure
• Vacuum Bubble in an Inhomogeneous Cosmology
• Holographic Space-time from the Big Bang to the de Sitter era
• Entropy of Anisotropic Universe and Fractional Branes
• Gravitational-wave background in bouncing models from semi-classical, quantum and string gravity
• Interacting entropy-corrected holographic scalar field models in non-flat universe
• Tunneling Constraints on Effective Theories of Stable de Sitter Space
• Unitarity bounds and RG flows in time dependent quantum field theory
• An equation of state in the limit of high densities
• Fischler-Susskind holographic cosmology revisited
• Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for Schwarzschild black holes
• Proposal for the Open String Tachyon Effective Action in the Linear Dilaton Background
• Holographic bounds and finite inflation
• Speed of Sound in String Gas Cosmology
• Towards an Observational Appraisal of String Cosmology
• Running of effective dimension and cosmological entropy in early universe
• Tachyon field non-minimally coupled to massive neutrino matter
• Black Hole - String Transition and Rolling D-brane
• A Bouncing Cosmology from VECROs
• The holographic state of matter and its implications for quantum gravity
• Numerical Analysis of Coleman-de Luccia Tunneling
• Mirage resolution of cosmological singularities
• A violation of the covariant entropy bound?
• A Statistical Derivation of Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy for Schwarzschild Black Holes
• A novel non-perturbative approach to String Cosmology
• A toy model for the coincidence problem
• de Sitter space, (D)pp-Waves and a star-Matrix model
• A fluid of black holes at the beginning of the Universe
• Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
• Complexity, chaos and the moving D3-brane
• Instanton Solution in Tachyon Cosmology
• Locality and the classical limit of quantum mechanics
• Tachyonic fields in cosmology
• GUP/BEB correspondence
• Cosmic acceleration from string induced Galileons
• An Alternative to Exact Renormalization and Cosmological Solutions in String Theory