Daniel Baumann (University of Cambridge), Liam McAllister (New York Cornell University)

Inflation and String Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9781107461369
• ISBN-10: 1107461367
• Artikelnr.: 58565460

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.