Cosmological consequences of short distance physics

2002/01/30 by Jens C. Niemeyer, J. C. Niemeyer, Niemeyer, Jens C. · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201511

9 pages. Talk presented at COSMO-01, Rovaniemi, Finland, August 29 -- September 4, 2001

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Abstract

Inflation can act as a space-time microscope for Planck or string scale effects, leaving potentially observable traces in the primordial perturbation spectrum. I discuss two frameworks that were used recently to study this phenomenon: nonlinear dispersion and short distance uncertainty.

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