Cosmology and String Theory

• Main Author: Năstase, Horaţiu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 197
• Subjects: Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Cosmology.; Gravitation.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Cosmology describes the evolution of the Universe and is based on a description of its beginning from quantum fluctuations. String theory is the only known consistent theory of quantum gravity that can deal with the highest energy scales near the Planck energy, relevant for cosmology's beginnin...