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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 8: Hauptvorträge Donnerstag

GR 8.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 08:30–09:10, A214

Superstrings and Cosmology — •Dieter Lüst — Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München und Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München

Abstract: Superstrings as a unified theory of particles and forces contain gauge interactions as well as gravitational interactions. Hence superstrings should also provide some microscopic understanding about the physics of the early universe. In this talk I will discuss several aspects of superstring cosmology:
  (i) String inflation
  (ii) Dark energy from strings
  (iii) The multiverse picture
(iv) Strings and singularities - physics around the big bang.