String Gas Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-08-07 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
String gas cosmology is a string theory-based approach to early universe cosmology which is based on making use of robust features of string theory such as the existence of new states and new symmetries. A first goal of string gas cosmology is to understand how string theory can effect the earliest moments of cosmology before the effective field theory approach which underlies standard and inflationary cosmology becomes valid. String gas cosmology may also provide an alternative to the current standard paradigm of cosmology, the inflationary universe scenario. Here, the current status of string gas cosmology is reviewed.
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@article{arxiv.0808.0746,
title = {String Gas Cosmology},
author = {Robert H. Brandenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0746},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
35 pages, 6 figures, draft of a contribution to a book on string cosmology edited by J. Erdmenger, comments welcome