SUGGESTED READING: "String and supergravity motivated cosmology"

  • I. "COSMOLOGICAL STANDARD MODEL" based on observations.
    Main issue: how to describe dark energy (cosmological constant ?) and early universe inflation from fundamental physics.
    The latest paper with data: Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly-alpha forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy By Uros Seljak, et al.,

  • II. KKLT SCENARIO OF MODULI STABILIZATION.
    De Sitter vacua in string theory.
    By Shamit Kachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Sandip P. Trivedi,

  • Additional important refs.

    • Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications.
    By Steven B. Giddings, Shamit Kachru, Joseph Polchinski,

    Building a better racetrack
    By Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas, Bogdan Florea

  • III. TOWARDS INFLATION IN STRING THEORY.

    • Modular inflation, brane inflation. The puzzle of the nearly flat inflaton potentials: fine-tuning or symmetries.

    Towards inflation in string theory.
    By Shamit Kachru, et al.,  

    Deformation, non-commutativity and the cosmological constant problem.
    By Renata Kallosh

    Racetrack inflation.
    By J.J. Blanco-Pillado, et al.,

    Volume stabilization and the origin of the inflaton shift symmetry in string theory.
    By Jonathan P. Hsu & Renata Kallosh  

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