Daniel Baumann, Liam McAllister

Inflation and String Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible volume provides a modern treatment of the cosmological and string-theoretic background necessary to understand inflation in string theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9781107089693
• ISBN-10: 1107089697
• Artikelnr.: 41608177

Autorenporträt

Daniel Baumann is Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from Princeton University, New Jersey in 2008 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, Massachusetts and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Inflation: theory and observations
2. Inflation in effective field theory
3. Elements of string theory
4. What is string inflation?
5. Examples of string inflation
6. Conclusions and outlook
Appendix A. Mathematical preliminaries
Appendix B. The effective theory of inflation
Appendix C. Primordial perturbations from inflation.