Cosmological Aspects of String Compactifications
Abstract
The organization of this work is as follows. In Chapters 2, 3, and 4 they discuss the dynamics of unfixed moduli in quantum field theory and in string theory, with emphasis on applications to cosmological model-building. Moduli-stabilizing effects are not included, because the goal is to understand the evolution of moduli whose potentials remain approximately flat. In Chapter 5 they develop a technique for stabilizing moduli in the heterotic string, and they construct the first stabilized, weakly-coupled heterotic vacua. In Chapter 6 they utilize advances in the stabilization of type IIB compactifications to build the first models of inflation in stabilized string vacua. Finally, in Chapter 7 they examine the effects of volume-stabilization on the inflaton mass in closely-related scenarios of string inflation.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 877223
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-R-750
TRN: US200702%%241
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STABILIZATION; ASTROPHYSICS; Astrophysics,GRQC, HEPTH
Citation Formats
McAllister, Liam Patrick, and /Stanford U., Phys. Dept. /SLAC. Cosmological Aspects of String Compactifications. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web. doi:10.2172/877223.
McAllister, Liam Patrick, & /Stanford U., Phys. Dept. /SLAC. Cosmological Aspects of String Compactifications. United States. doi:10.2172/877223.
McAllister, Liam Patrick, and /Stanford U., Phys. Dept. /SLAC. Fri .
"Cosmological Aspects of String Compactifications". United States.
doi:10.2172/877223. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/877223.
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abstractNote = {The organization of this work is as follows. In Chapters 2, 3, and 4 they discuss the dynamics of unfixed moduli in quantum field theory and in string theory, with emphasis on applications to cosmological model-building. Moduli-stabilizing effects are not included, because the goal is to understand the evolution of moduli whose potentials remain approximately flat. In Chapter 5 they develop a technique for stabilizing moduli in the heterotic string, and they construct the first stabilized, weakly-coupled heterotic vacua. In Chapter 6 they utilize advances in the stabilization of type IIB compactifications to build the first models of inflation in stabilized string vacua. Finally, in Chapter 7 they examine the effects of volume-stabilization on the inflaton mass in closely-related scenarios of string inflation.},
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