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hep-th2026
Cosmological Dynamics of the Thermal Scalar Near the Hagedorn Temperature
Arnab Pradhan, Luis Rufino, Scott Watson
We study the cosmological dynamics of the thermal scalar the winding string mode that becomes massless at the Hagedorn transition by coupling it to the string-frame gravi dilaton e…
hep-th2023
Waiting for Inflation: A New Initial State for the Universe
Brandon Melcher, Arnab Pradhan, Scott Watson
We propose a cosmological lingering phase for the initial state prior to inflation which would help address the singularity problem of inflation. The universe begins with a constan…