2 papers
hep-th2004
Brane World Cosmology
Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne--Christine Davis
Recent developments in the physics of extra dimensions have opened up new avenues to test such theories. We review cosmological aspects of brane world scenarios such as the Randall…
hep-th2004
D-term inflation without cosmic strings
J. Urrestilla, A. Achucarro, A. C. Davis
We present a superstring-inspired version of D-term inflation which does not lead to cosmic string formation and appears to satisfy the current CMB constraints. It differs from min…