Lectures on string/brane cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
An overview is presented of some cosmological aspects of string theory. Recent developments are emphasised, especially the attempts to derive inflation or alternatives to inflation from the dynamics of branes in string theory. Time dependent backgrounds with potential cosmological implications, such as those provided by negative tension branes and S-branes and the rolling string tachyon are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210292,
title = {Lectures on string/brane cosmology},
author = {F. Quevedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210292},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
75 pages, 29 figures, lectures delivered in January 2002 at the third RTN school on ``The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions'', Utrecht