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hep-th2012★ 76 cited
DBI Genesis: An Improved Violation of the Null Energy Condition
Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1
We show that the DBI conformal galileons, derived from the world-volume theory of a 3-brane moving in an AdS bulk, admit a background, stable under quantum corrections, which viola…
hep-th2012★ 79 cited
DBI Realizations of the Pseudo-Conformal Universe and Galilean Genesis Scenarios
Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1
The pseudo-conformal universe is an alternative to inflation in which the early universe is described by a conformal field theory on approximately flat space-time. The fields devel…