Prospects of Inflation
Abstract
I will discuss the development of inflationary theory and its present status, including recent progress in describing de Sitter space and inflationary universe in string theory.
- Publication:
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Physica Scripta Volume T
- Pub Date:
- January 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1238/Physica.Topical.117a00040
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0402051
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhST..117...40L
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 23 pages, extended version of the talk at the Nobel Symposium "Cosmology and String Theory," August 2003