Challenges for Inflationary Cosmology
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Inflationary cosmology has provided a predictive and phenomenologically very successful scenario for early universe cosmology. Attempts to implement inflation using scalar fields, however, lead to models with serious conceptual problems. I will discuss some of the problems, explain why string theory could provide solutions to a subset of these problems, and give a brief overview of “string gas cosmology”, one of the approaches to merge string theory and early universe cosmology.
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