Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations

2006

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Abstract: (arXiv)
These notes present a brief introduction to Hot Big Bang cosmology and Cosmic Inflation, together with a selection of some recent attempts to embed inflation into string theory. They provide a partial description of lectures presented in courses at Dubrovnik in August 2006, at CERN in January 2007 and at Cargese in August 2007. They are aimed at graduate students with a working knowledge of quantum field theory, but who are unfamiliar with the details of cosmology or of string theory.
Note:
  • 68 pages, lectures given at Dubrovnik, Aug 2006/ CERN, January 2007/ and Cargese, Aug 2007
  • 95.36.+x
  • 98.80.Cq
  • 11.25.-w
  • lectures
  • inflation
  • string model
  • dark energy
  • dark matter
  • fluctuation
  • membrane model: D-brane