Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-02-09 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
These notes present a brief introduction to Hot Big Bang cosmology and Cosmic Inflation, together with a selection of some recent attempts to embed inflation into string theory. They provide a partial description of lectures presented in courses at Dubrovnik in August 2006, at CERN in January 2007 and at Cargese in August 2007. They are aimed at graduate students with a working knowledge of quantum field theory, but who are unfamiliar with the details of cosmology or of string theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.2865,
title = {Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations},
author = {C. P. Burgess},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2865},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
68 pages, lectures given at Dubrovnik, Aug 2006; CERN, January 2007; and Cargese, Aug 2007