Inflation and slow rolling in N=2* (Pilch-Warner) model. Inflation from String Theory ... N=2* susy gauge theory constructed in (Pilch and Warner hep-th/0004063) ...
GR phenomenology QG. standard cosmology highly successful (Peiris) ... use braneworld phenomenology. 2 key aspects. braneworld gravity brings new features ...
If the conjecture is true, we can show the non-existence ... 3.2 Bunting & Masood-ul-Alam's way. Black hole spacetimes. metric. 3-dimensional Einstein equation ...
Geometry of spacetime is described by metric tensor g. ... 4) Mathematical formalism. The simplest way to obtain different (classical) theory of gravity ...
Gauss-Bonnet gravity. is topological in D=4, but dynamical in D 4 ... appears in the slope expansion for the heterotic string action. The Gauss-Bonnet combination, ...
String theory or M-theory suggests that we live on a brane in 10/11 dimensional space-time. ... same as 4D theory. The excitation may be insensitive to EOS. ...
Behavior of gravity on a brane, cosmology, black holes,... This work studies. Braneworld models ... of KK modes. Cosmology. Analysis in supergravity (Salam ...
Space and time are not independent - form a spacetime continuum ... Grande Ache, Paris. Johann Otto von Spreckelsen. Geometry. Salvador Dali. Crucifixion ...
Effective Action on Manifolds with Branes and Boundaries. Lebedev ... local self-adjoint differential brane operator (generalized) Neumann Bulk propagator ...
Constraints on Extra Dimensions from Black-Hole Binary Systems. Tim Johannsen ... 1 infinite(!) extra dimension - asymptotic curvature radius L. Black holes unstable ...
Time variation w' is a critical clue to fundamental physics. ... Other tools: astronomy (strong gravity, solar system), accelerator, tabletop experiments ...
Closed string. Open string. D-brane. Be serious about D-brane! Bulk spacetime supergravity ... Gravitational theory on self-gravitating D-brane (with Z2 symmetry) ...
Zeta function regularization. 9. See e.g., Vassilevich '03. One-loop effective potential ... Zeta function regularization. Regularization by employing the zeta ...
Large distance modification of gravity and dark ... Cosmology as a probe of DGP gravity Growth rate of structure formation Evolution of CDM over-density GR ...
Tev particle astrophysics at IHEP. Natural Phantom Dark Energy, Wiggling Hubble Parameter H(z) ... Tev particle astrophysics at IHEP. Outline. A quick glance at ...
Quintessence, k-essence, chaplygin gas, tachyon, phantom, ... to construct viable quintessence ... Quintessence does not give rise to this equation of state. ...
I: Familiar formulation via functional integrals (Misner 57, Hawking 79) ... zeta function remains regular at the origin, despite the lack of strong ellipticity. ...
The Friedmann-Lema tre equation (FL) is (k=8pG/3) ... When H rc ) the standard FL equation (for flat space k=0) ... then the FL equation becomes. DGP self ...
Scalar-tensor gravity ( extended quintessence'): also a new light scalar ... Interesting - but the models do not improve on standard GR quintessence models ...
Exploding stars supernovae are bright beacons that allow us to measure ... Structure Micro-Lensing The ISM The Solar System Supernovae Star Formation ...
Giampiero Esposito, INFN, Naples; MG11 Conference, Berlin, 23-29 July 2006, COT5 ... A. Bonanno, G. Esposito, C. Rubano, P. Scudellaro, ... G. Esposito, A.Yu. ...
consists of snatching from the enormous and complex mass of ... Gemma Frisius. 16th century Dutch astronomer. Standard cosmological model* * Do we want one? ...
Possible deviations in models with Extra Dimensions ... dimensional space ... Where particles live in extra dimensions. Polarized Bhabha Scattering ...
... LCDM cosmology that gives the same power as an arbitrary w(a) cosmology? ... different w(a), but otherwise identical cosmology that have the same distance to ...
Fundamental Physics and the present Universe: . Nature of dark matter and ... Avoid hubris (we have been lucky) and pay close . attention to systematic errors. ...
The Scalar Field Dark Matter Model. Tonatiuh Matos, Miguel Alcubierre, Ruben Cordero, Ricardo Becerril, F. Siddhartha Guzman, Dario Nu ez, Luis Ure a, Argelia Bernal, ...
Theoretical Aspects of Dark Energy Models Rong-Gen Cai Institute of Theoretical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences CCAST, July 4, 2005 (2) Holographic Energy?
Current cosmological observations indicate that the universe expands today ... Ia observations, Gold and SNLS, are consistence with the results of detection of ...
1. Moduli Stabilization and Cosmology in String Gas Compactification ... Target space (T-) duality. Consider the toroidaly compactified spacetime with the raius R. ...
... gravity is weak due to large compact ED space. compactification ... LC could be able to disentagle between. SUSY and UED. if Plank masses in 5-dim are O(TeV) ...
Eric Linder University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Cosmic Coincidence On Beyond ! Cosmic Archaeology Standard Candles What makes SN ...
For a point particle the effect is to quantize the momentum, pcompact = n/R with integer n. ... quantum number w, so the mass formula is just. Meff 2 = M 2 ...
There are concerns that ghosts are present when gravity alterations drive cosmic ... into the filter (but it won't rid us of ghosts on the self-inflating branch...
The Pioneer Anomaly. Jonas Williamson. University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. The Pioneer Anomaly ... Was Launched on March 2, 1972. Was the first man-made ...
Hence there are no ghosts. ... There were concerns about ghosts, and/or nonlocal effects. ... We suspect: no ghosts (very preliminary - no proof yet, but...