Cosmological consequences of short distance physics
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Inflation can act as a space-time microscope for Planck or string scale effects, leaving potentially observable traces in the primordial perturbation spectrum. I discuss two frameworks that were used recently to study this phenomenon: nonlinear dispersion and short distance uncertainty.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201511,
title = {Cosmological consequences of short distance physics},
author = {Jens C. Niemeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201511},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages. Talk presented at COSMO-01, Rovaniemi, Finland, August 29 -- September 4, 2001