String Cosmology  

In General > s.a. brane cosmology [including ekpyrotic]; dark energy; dark matter; string phenomenology [particle physics, gravity, astrophysics].
@ Reviews: Gasperini ht/95-proc, proc(01)ht/99; Veneziano ht/95-conf, HPA(96)ht/95; Brustein proc(98)ht; Lykken AIP(98)ap/99; Lidsey et al PRP(00)ht/99; Kraniotis IJMPA(00); Carroll ht/00-ln; Gasperini CQG(00)ht; Brandenberger ht/01-conf; Mavromatos LNP(02)ht/01; Copeland ht/02-conf; Quevedo CQG(02)ht-ln; Wands CQG(02)ht; Gibbons CQG(03)ht-in [tachyon cosmology]; Cleaver ASR(05)ap/03; Danielsson CQG(05)ht/04-ln; Bailin & Love 04; Cline ht/06-ln; Gasperini 07; McAllister & Silverstein GRG(08)-a0710; Kounnas FdP(10)-a1002-ln; issue CQG(11)#20; Mulryne & Ward CQG(11)-a1105; Gasperini a1402-ch; Silverstein a1606-ln, a1706.
@ General references: Hertzberg et al PRD(07)-a0709, JHEP(07)-a0711 [and inflation]; Papineau PhD(07)-a0708; Anchordoqui et al PRD(07)-a0704.
@ Quantum cosmology: Cavaglià & Ungarelli CQG(99)gq, NPPS(00)gq/99; Kobakhidze & Mersini-Houghton EPJC(07)ht/04; García-Compeán et al PRD(05) [tachyon-driven]; Kim et al PRL(12)-a1108 + news pw(11)dec, sn(12)jan [emergence of 3 spatial dimensions].
@ Related topics: Dabrowski & Stelmach AJ(89)ap/04 [expansion rate and galaxy counts]; Sakellariadou NPB(96)ht/95; Horowitz & Marolf JHEP(98)ht; Billyard et al PRD(99)gq, JMP(99)ht [with cosmological constant], CQG(00)gq/99 [homogeneous]; Damour AHP(03)ht/02-in, NCB(03), IJMPA(04) [and chaos]; Tsujikawa CQG(03) [non-singular]; Gasperini & Nicotri PLB(06)ht/05 [B fields and gravitational-wave background]; McInnes NPB(06) [pre-inflationary]; Banks ht/07 [entropy and initial conditions].

Specific Features and Phenomenology > s.a. Baby Universes; cosmological constant; early-universe models [bounces]; inflation.
@ Singularities: Larsen & Wilczek PRD(97)ht/96 [FLRW models]; McInnes ht/06 [spatial topology and singularity resolution]; Craps CQG(06) [rev].
@ Pre-big-bang: Gasperini et al NPB(97)ht/96; Veneziano ht/98-ln; Borunda & Ruíz-Altaba AIP(98)ht, ht/98; Cartier et al JHEP(00)ht/99 [graceful exit]; Veneziano ht/00-ln; Gasperini & Veneziano PRP(03), ht/07-ch; Veneziano SA(04)may.
@ Imprints on cmb: Durrer et al PLB(98)ap, PRD(99)gq/98; Melchiorri et al PRL(99)ap; Hannestad & Mersini-Houghton PRD(05)hp/04; news pw(07)feb; Mersini-Houghton MPLA(06) [and large-scale structure]; Kallosh & Linde JCAP(07)-a0704 [tensor modes].
@ Cosmic (super)strings: Polchinski IJMPA(05)ht/04, ht/04-ln; Davis & Kibble CP(05)ht; Becker et al PRD(06)ht/05 [heterotic]; Jackson JHEP(07)-a0706 [interactions]; Khatri & Wandelt PRL(08)-a0801 + sr(08)jan [cosmic-string network imprint on 21-cm background]; Nelson AIP(10)-a0910 [dynamics and cusps]; Copeland & Kibble PRS(10)-a0911 [rev]; Sakellariadou FdP(10)-a1001-conf [rev]; Danos & Brandenberger JCAP(10) [cmb signatures]; Sazhina & Mukhaeva a1603 [observational constraints]; > s.a. cosmic strings.
@ String-gas cosmology: Battefeld & Watson RMP(06)ht/05; Brandenberger a0808-ch, CQG(11)-a1105; Evnin JPCS(14)-a1312 [microscopic approach]; Liu a1412-ln [thermodynamic aspects]; Brandenberger CQG(15)-a1505 [after the 2015 Planck data release]; > s.a. early-universe cosmology [structure formation].
> Models: see bianchiIX and other bianchi models; early universe; gödel spacetime; gowdy spacetime; perturbations; singularity types and censorship.


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