Overview
- Introduces string cosmology without requiring a full background in string theory or cosmology
- Provides a thorough treatment, exploring all (or most) relevant string cosmology models
- Pedagogical treatment in course format, with exercises and summary of important points after each chapter
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 197)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Standard Cosmology
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Cosmology describes the evolution of the Universe and is based on a description of its beginning from quantum fluctuations. String theory is the only known consistent theory of quantum gravity that can deal with the highest energy scales near the Planck energy, relevant for cosmology's beginning. As a result, only string theory can give a fully consistent picture of cosmological origins. This book describes the best current avenues for obtaining cosmology from string theory. It is aimed at graduate students, and also researchers, with some familiarity with cosmology and string theory, however no detailed knowledge is required.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Horatiu Nastase has a career which has spanned 4 continents. He holds a PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in string theory. During a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, his work with Berenstein and Maldacena started the pp wave correspondence. After another postdoc and Brown University, and a tenure-track at Tokyo Tech in Japan, he is now a tenured Researcher at IFT-UNESP in Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cosmology and String Theory
Authors: Horaţiu Năstase
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15077-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15076-1Published: 16 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15077-8Published: 04 April 2019
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 462
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Cosmology, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory