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The Gravitational Instability of the Vacuum: Insight into the Cosmological Constant Problem
Stephon Alexander, Manasse Mbonye, John Moffat
A mechanism for suppressing the cosmological constant is developed, based on an analogy with a superconducting phaseshift in which free fermions coupled perturbatively to a weak gr…
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Non-Topological Inflation from Embedded Defects
Stephon Alexander, Robert Brandenberger, Moshe Rozali
We discuss a new mechanism of obtaining a period of cosmological inflation in the context of string theory. This mechanism is based on embedded defects which form dynamically on hi…