Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence
Conceptual Problems of Inflationary Cosmology and Challenges for a New Paradigm for the Very Early Universe
Abstract:
I will argue that, in spite of the spectacular phenomenological success of the inflationary scenario, models of scalar field-driven inflation lead to serious conceptual problems, and a new theoretical paradigm is necessary in order to overcome these problems. I will then discuss the challenges for a new cosmology and attempts to address these in the context of superstring theory.
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