Johanna Erdmenger 
String Cosmology 
Modern String Theory Concepts from the Big Bang to Cosmic Structure

Filling a huge gap in the literature by bringing together all the different strains of research within this particular subject into one single volume, this book is a collection of articles presenting up-to-date, ongoing results by renowned experts currently working in the field.

Table of Content

1. 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)

About the author

Johanna 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.