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Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time
Sean M. Carroll, Jennifer Chen
We suggest that spontaneous eternal inflation can provide a natural explanation for the thermodynamic arrow of time, and discuss the underlying assumptions and consequences of this…
TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology
Mark Trodden, Sean M. Carroll
These proceedings summarize lectures that were delivered as part of the 2002 and 2003 Theoretical Advanced Study Institutes in elementary particle physics (TASI) at the University…
Sidestepping the Cosmological Constant with Football-Shaped Extra Dimensions
Sean M. Carroll, Monica M. Guica
We present an exact solution for a factorizable brane-world spacetime with two extra dimensions and explicit brane sources. The compactification manifold has the topology of a two-…
Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe
Sean M. Carroll
A brief review is offered of the theoretical background concerning dark energy: what is required by observations, what sort of models are being considered, and how they fit into pa…
Primordial Magnetic Fields that Last?
Sean M. Carroll, George B. Field
The magnetic fields we observe in galaxies today may have their origins in the very early universe. While a number of mechanisms have been proposed which lead to an appreciable fie…
Lecture Notes on General Relativity
Sean M. Carroll
These notes represent approximately one semester's worth of lectures on introductory general relativity for beginning graduate students in physics. Topics include manifolds, Rieman…