2 papers
hep-th2005
Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions and the Cosmological Constant Problem
C. P. Burgess
This article briefly summarizes and reviews the motivations for - and the present status of - the proposal that the small size of the observed Dark Energy density can be understood…
hep-th2005
Multiple Inflation, Cosmic String Networks and the String Landscape
C. P. Burgess, Richard Easther, Anupam Mazumdar +2
Motivated by the string landscape we examine scenarios for which inflation is a two-step process, with a comparatively short inflationary epoch near the string scale and a longer p…