Inflation and String Theory - Daniel Baumann, Liam McAllister

Inflation and String Theory

Buch | Softcover
393 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-46136-9 (ISBN)
53,60 inkl. MwSt
This accessible volume provides the cosmological and string-theoretic background necessary to understand inflation in string theory. Presenting a modern treatment of inflationary cosmology and its connections to string theory and elementary particle theory, this is a self-contained resource for graduate students and researchers in string theory, cosmology, and related fields.
The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory. Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for inflationary expansion in the very early universe, while new insights about compactifications of string theory have led to a deeper understanding of inflation in a framework that unifies quantum mechanics and general relativity. Written by two of the leading researchers in the field, this complete and accessible volume provides a modern treatment of inflationary cosmology and its connections to string theory and elementary particle theory. After an up-to-date experimental summary, the authors present the foundations of effective field theory, string theory, and string compactifications, setting the stage for a detailed examination of models of inflation in string theory. Three appendices contain background material in geometry and cosmological perturbation theory, making this a self-contained resource for graduate students and researchers in string theory, cosmology, and related fields.

Daniel Baumann is Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from Princeton University, New Jersey in 2008 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, Massachusetts and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Liam McAllister is Associate Professor of Physics at Cornell University, New York. He earned his PhD from Stanford University, California in 2005 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, New Jersey.

1. Inflation: theory and observations; 2. Inflation in effective field theory; 3. Elements of string theory; 4. What is string inflation?; 5. Examples of string inflation; 6. Conclusions and outlook; Appendix A. Mathematical preliminaries; Appendix B. The effective theory of inflation; Appendix C. Primordial perturbations from inflation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.1.2020
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Zusatzinfo 64 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 245 mm
Gewicht 550 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Quantenphysik
ISBN-10 1-107-46136-7 / 1107461367
ISBN-13 978-1-107-46136-9 / 9781107461369
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