Inflation from String Theory

Abstract

I review some aspects of obtaining inflation from string theory, in particular brane-antibrane inflation within the framework of KKLMMT, and racetrack inflation. Further, I discuss recent work on the problem of reheating after brane-antibrane annihilation, and possible distinctive features of production of cosmic string and brane defects at this time.

13 pages, 14 figures; invited talk at JGRG14 conference, Kyoto, Japan, 2 Dec. 2004

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• A Study of Structure Formation and Reheating in the D3/D7 Brane Inflation Model
• Coupling Hybrid Inflation to Moduli
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• On mass spectra of primordial black holes
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• Potential for the slow-roll inflation, mass scale hierarchy and Dark Energy from the Type IIA supergravity
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