Inflation and String Theory

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Baumann, Daniel (University of Cambridge) Baumann, Daniel (University of Cambridge) Mcallist Baumann, Baumann Daniel, Liam McAllister, Liam (Cornell University McAllister, McAllister Liam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781107461369
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46136-9
• No. of pages: 393
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Physics, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology