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180. Cosmology of F-theory GUTs

This is a guest blog post by Jonathan Heckman who is working at Harvard with Cumrun Vafa. Dmitry.

Let me first thank Dmitry for the invitation to write a blog entry on my recent work with A. Tavanfar and C. Vafa entitled “Cosmology of F-theory GUTs”, arXiv:0812.3155 [hep-th]. Before proceeding to a discussion of the actual contents of this paper, I will first provide some background and motivation for F-theory GUTs, and what we can hope to learn by studying the cosmology of these models. As a general comment, I will not be particularly fastidious in referring to all of the relevant papers, and instead refer the interested reader to our paper and references therein as an access point to the literature.

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