PIRSA:08060185 Conference Quantum Fields and Strings Particle Physics Cosmology

DOI10.48660/08060185

Conference/School: PASCOS 08

Hertzberg, M. (2008). Inflationary Constraints on String Theory. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08060185

Hertzberg, Mark. Inflationary Constraints on String Theory. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 06, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08060185 

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  doi = {10.48660/08060185},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/08060185},
  author = {Hertzberg, Mark},
  keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings, Particle Physics, Cosmology},
  language = {en},
  title = {Inflationary Constraints on String Theory},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2008},
  month = {jun},
  note = {PIRSA:08060185 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

It is an important task to embed inflation in a fundamental microphysical theory such as string theory. Since string theory possesses a vast landscape of 4-dimensional theories, we would like to know which portions contain inflation and which do not. I prove a no-go theorem that inflation and de Sitter vacua are forbidden in an exponentially large number of infinite families of simple and well understood compactifications of type IIA string theory. I also mention more complicated and less well understood compactifications, which may have the ingredients for our cosmology.

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