Recent Progress in String Inflationary Cosmology

Super–inflation driven by dilaton/moduli kinetic energy is naturally realized in compactified string theory. Discussed are selected topics of recent development in string inflationary cosmology: kinematics of super-inflation, graceful exit triggered by quantum back reaction, and classical and quantum power spectra of density and metric perturbations. † Invited Talk given at 7th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Astronomical Union, August 19 23, 1996 Pusan, Korea. To be published in the Proceedings. RECENT PROGRESS IN STRING INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY SOO-JONG REY Physics Department, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742 KOREA Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 USA Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94309 USA