2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Implications of superstring theory for cosmology and black hole physics
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21740216
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
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| Research Institution | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (2011)
Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics (2009-2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
SEKINO Yasuhiro 大学共同利用機関法人高エネルギー加速器研究機構, 素粒子原子核研究所, 研究員 (50443594)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 素粒子論 / 宇宙物理 |
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| Research Abstract |
Superstring theory suggests that our universe was created by bubble nucleation in eternal inflation. We constructed a non-perturbative formulation for such a universe. We showed that there are various phases in eternal inflation, and pointed out that the properties of our universe depend on the phase. We also proposed a new mechanism for the generation of temperature fluctuations of cosmic microwave background radiations. Superstring theory suggests that black holes are described by quantum mechanics of matrices. We computed correlation functions of such a matrix model by using analytical and numerical methods.
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