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Quantum Gravity and Inflation
Stephon Alexander, Justin Malecki, Lee Smolin
Using the Ashtekar-Sen variables of loop quantum gravity, a new class of exact solutions to the equations of quantum cosmology is found for gravity coupled to a scalar field, that…
hep-th2003★ 6 cited
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…