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1 online resource (107 pages) |
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Preface; List of Participants; Programme; Supernovae and Dark Energy; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. SN la and Luminosity Distance; 3. Systematics and Future Searches; 4. Models for SN la and Explosions; References; Studying Dark Energy with Supernovae: Now Soon and the Not-Too-Distant Future; Abstract; 1. Introduction: A Challenging Problem; 2. The Upcoming Supernova Projects; 3. Are These Supernovae Studies Sufficient for w'?; 4. Some New SN la Results and Implications for Systematic Uncertainties; 5. How to Make this Precision Measurement; 6. Conclusion; References |
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What Have We Learned from Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations?1. Introduction; 2. Probing Initial Conditions; 3. Probing Cosmological Parameters; 4. Results from WMAP; 5. Consistent Cosmology; 6. Conclusions and Open Questions; References; Quintessential Ideas; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Quintessence basics; 3. Implications of quintessence for the cosmological constant problem; 4. Implications of quintessence for the cosmic coincidence problem; 5. Quintessence and cyclic models; 6. Final remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Prospects of Inflation; Abstract; 1. Introduction |
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2. Brief history of inflation3. Chaotic Inflation; 4. Hybrid inflation; 5. Quantum fluctuations and density perturbations; 6. Eternal inflation; 7. Inflation and observations; 8. Alternatives of inflation?; 9. Chaotic inflation in supergravity; 10. Towards Inflation in String Theory; 11. Eternal inflation and string theory landscape; Acknowledgements; References; A Non Singular Universe; Unconventional Scenarios and Perturbations Therein; Abstract; 1. String-inspired unconventional cosmologies; 2. Conventional perturbations in unconventional cosmologies |
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3. Unconventional perturbations in string cosmologyAcknowledgment; References; Holographic Cosmology 3.0.; Abstract; 1. Introduction -- A Most Entropic Beginning ... ; 2. Normal Universe; 3. Scale Invariant Fluctuations; 4. Parameter Fitting and Phenomenology; 5. Conclusions; 6. Acknowledgement; References; Bouncing Universes in String Theory?; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Backreaction; 3. Other approaches; Acknowledgements; References; Remarks on Tachyon Driven Cosmology; Abstract; Introduction and review of classical dynamics of open string tachyon |
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Coupling to closed strings and open-closed string duality conjectureLessons from c = 1 string theory; Tachyon driven cosmology; Acknowledgement; References; Beyond Inflation: A Cyclic Universe Scenario; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Brief Overview of the Cyclic Scenario; 3. Ekpyrotic Density Perturbation Mechanism; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Creating Naked Singularities and Negative Energy; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Cosmic censorship violation in AdS; 3. Negative energy and naked singularities in supergravity |
| Summary |
The Nobel Symposium in 2003 on String Theory and Cosmology was a gathering of many of the most active and distinguished scientists in the world, including Stephen Hawking, 2004 Nobel Prize winner David Gross, and Andrei Linde. The experts, comprising both theoreticians and experimentalists, were given the opportunity to discuss the present status of their respective subjects. Throughout the symposium, special attention was given to the connections between the fields: the questions posed ranged from "Can cosmology be used to test string theory?" to "Can string theory answer deep questions about |
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4. Violation of cosmic censorship in asymptotically flat spacetimes? |
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Print version record |
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Cosmology -- Congresses
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String models -- Congresses
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Cosmology
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String models
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goobar, A
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Nilsson, B
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| ISBN |
9789812701657 |
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9812701656 |
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