Inflation and String theory / Daniel Baumann and Liam McAllister.
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TextSeries: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physicsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: xxii, 371 p. : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: - 9781107089693
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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;
References;
Index.
This accessible volume provides a modern treatment of the cosmological and string-theoretic background necessary to understand inflation in string theory.
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