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Planck-scale quintessence and the physics of structure formation
Constantinos Skordis, Andreas Albrecht
In a recent paper we considered the possibility of a scalar field providing an explanation for the cosmic acceleration. Our model had the interesting properties of attractor-like b…
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Defect models of cosmic structure in light of the new CMB data
Andreas Albrecht
Defect models of cosmic structure formation have faced a number of difficult challenges over recent years. Yet interestingly, new CMB data does not show strong evidence for seconda…
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Cosmic Inflation
Andreas Albrecht
I review the current status of the theory of Cosmic Inflation. My discussion covers the motivation and implementation of the idea, as well as an analysis of recent successes and op…