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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J ErdmengerPublisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Imprint: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Dimensions: Width: 17.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.30cm Weight: 0.760kg ISBN: 9783527408627ISBN 10: 3527408622 Pages: 329 Publication Date: 15 April 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Cosmology and String Theory (J.Erdmenger, M.Ammon) 2. String Inflation I: Brane Inflation (M.Zagermann) 3. String Inflation II: Inflation from Moduli (C.P.Burgess) 4. Cosmic Superstrings (R.C.Myers, M.Wyman) 5. The CMB as a Possible Probe of String Theory (G.Shiu) 6. String Gas Cosmology (R.H.Brandenberger) 7. Gauge-gravity Duality and String Cosmology (S.R.Das) 8. Heterotic M-Theory and Cosmology (A.Krause)ReviewsAuthor InformationJohanna Erdmenger is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1996 and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) from 1999-2001. She has written over 40 publications in the areas of string theory and quantum field theory, in particular on gauge/gravity dualities and their relation to QCD, on matrix cosmology, on supersymmetry breaking and on field theory methods in condensed matter theory. She has recently been appointed as editor of The European Physical Journal C. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |