2 papers
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…
astro-ph.CO2025
Cosmological Perturbations from a New Approach to Inflation
Brandon Melcher, Arnab Pradhan, Scott Watson
In a previous paper we proposed a new approach to the beginning of inflation -- a lingering universe. The universe begins in a lingering state with a nearly vanishing Hubble parame…