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Inflation and cosmic (super)strings: implications of their intimate relation revisited

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-10-28 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We briefly discuss constraints on supersymmetric hybrid inflation models and examine the consistency of brane inflation models. We then address the implications for inflationary scenarios resulting from the strong constraints on the cosmic (super)string tension imposed from the most recent cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies data.

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@article{arxiv.1308.6666,
  title  = {Inflation and cosmic (super)strings: implications of their intimate relation revisited},
  author = {Mairi Sakellariadou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6666},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages; Invited talk in the "Quantized Flux in Tightly Knotted and Linked Systems" workshop in association with the Newton Institute programme "Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences" -- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge 3 - 7 December 2012