Challenges for string cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/20/204002zbMATH Open1228.83121arXiv1108.2660OpenAlexW1993696950MaRDI QIDQ3100331FDOQ3100331

C. P. Burgess, Liam Mcallister

Publication date: 24 November 2011

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We critically assess the twin prospects of describing the observed universe in string theory, and using cosmological experiments to probe string theory. For the purposes of this short review, we focus on the limitations imposed by our incomplete understanding of string theory. After presenting an array of significant obstacles, we indicate a few areas that may admit theoretical progress in the near future.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2660

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Cited In (19)

• A critical review of classical bouncing cosmologies
• Cosmological singularities and 2-dimensional dilaton gravity
• Cosmologies, singularities and quantum extremal surfaces
• Inflating in a trough: single-field effective theory from multiple-field curved valleys
• Entanglement entropy near cosmological singularities
• The web of D-branes at singularities in compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
• Towards brane-antibrane inflation in type \(II_{A}\): the holographic MQCD model
• Cosmological singularities, entanglement and quantum extremal surfaces
• The future of string theory.
• Inflation, large branes, and the shape of space
• Cosmological singularities, holographic complexity and entanglement
• D-branes at del Pezzo singularities: global embedding and moduli stabilisation
• Adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations in extended theories with kinetic couplings
• Constraints on string cosmology
• Higgs-otic inflation and string theory
• String cosmology: from the early universe to today
• Unconventional Cosmology
• String gas cosmology: progress and problems
• Large field inflation from axion mixing

This page was built for publication: Challenges for string cosmology

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3100331)