TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumann,Daniel
AU  - McAllister,Liam
TI  - Inflation and String theory
T2  - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
SN  - 9781107089693
U1  - 539.7258 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge :     
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - String models
KW  - Inflationary universe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Inflation: theory and observations; 
2. Inflation in effective field theory; 
3. Elements of string theory; 
4. What is string inflation?; 
5. Examples of string inflation; 
6. Conclusions and outlook; 
Appendix A. Mathematical preliminaries; 
Appendix B. The effective theory of inflation;
 Appendix C. Primordial perturbations from inflation;
References;
Index
N2  - This accessible volume provides a modern treatment of the cosmological and string-theoretic background necessary to understand inflation in string theory
ER  -