ELEMENTS OF STRING COSMOLOGY
CONTENTS A SHORT REVIEW OF STANDARD AND INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL THE INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGICAL MODEL REFERENCES THE BASIC STRING COSMOLOGY EQUATIONS TREE-LEVEL EQUATIONS THE EINSTEIN-FRAME REPRESENTATION FIRST-ORDER ? CORRECTIONS APPENDIX 2A DIFFERENTIAL FORMS IN A RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLD CONFORMAL INVARIANCE AND STRING EFFECTIVE ACTIONS STRINGS IN CURVED BACKGROUNDS AND CONFORMAL ANOMALIES HIGHER-CURVATURE AND HIGHER-GENUS EXPANSION APPENDIX 3A THE MASSLESS MULTIPLET OF THE BOSONIC STRING IN MINKOWSKI SPACE APPENDIX 3B SUPERSTRING MODELS AND EFFECTIVE ACTIONS DUALITY SYMMETRIES AND COSMOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS SCALE-FACTOR DUALITY AND THE PRE-BIG BANG SCENARIO DUALITY WITH MATTER SOURCES GLOBAL O(D, D) SYMMETRY APPENDIX 4A A NON-LOCAL, GENERAL-COVARIANT DILATON POTENTIAL APPENDIX 4B EXAMPLES OF REGULAR AND SELF-DUAL SOLUTIONS INFLATIONARY KINEMATICS FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF INFLATION DYNAMICAL EQUIVALENCE OF SUPER-INFLATION AND ACCELERATED CONTRACTION HORIZONS AND KINEMATICS THE STRING PHASE HIGH-CURVATURE FIXED POINTS OF THE STRING COSMOLOGY EQUATIONS STRONG COUPLING CORRECTIONS AND THE CURVATURE “BOUNCE” STRING GAS COSMOLOGY APPENDIX 6A BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE IN QUANTUM STRING COSMOLOGY THE COSMIC BACKGROUND OF RELIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVES PROPAGATION OF TENSOR PERTURBATIONS PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION AND SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION EXPECTED RELIC GRAVITONS FROM INFLATION SENSITIVITIES AND CROSS-CORRELATION OF GRAVITATIONAL DETECTORS APPENDIX 7A HIGHER-DERIVATIVE CORRECTIONS TO THE TENSOR PERTURBATION EQUATIONS SCALAR PERTURBATIONS AND THE ANISOTROPY OF THE CMB RADIATION SCALAR PERTURBATIONS IN A COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND THE ANISOTROPY SPECTRUM OF THE CMB RADIATION ADIABATIC METRIC PERTURBATIONS FROM THE STRING THEORY AXION APPENDIX 8A PHOTON–DILATON INTERACTIONS AND COSMIC MAGNETIC FIELDS APPENDIX 8B SEEDS FOR THE CMB ANISOTROPY DILATON PHENOMENOLOGY SPECTRAL INTENSITY OF A MASSIVE DILATON BACKGROUND INTERACTION WITH GRAVITATIONAL ANTENNAS DILATON DARK ENERGY AND LATE-TIME ACCELERATION APPENDIX 9A THE COMMON MODE OF INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS 10 ELEMENTS OF BRANE COSMOLOGY 10 1 EFFECTIVE GRAVITY ON THE BRANE 10 2 WARPED GEOMETRY AND LOCALIZATION OF GRAVITY 10 3 BRANE-WORLD COSMOLOGY 10 4 EKPYROTIC AND CYCLIC SCENARIO 10 5 BRANE–ANTIBRANE INFLATION