57. Stability of de Sitter space: statement of the problem 1

Ok, friends, I feel that the time has come to let you know about things I am currently involved in – namely, understanding of intrinsic stability of the de Sitter space. (…)


51. Planck 2008: day 4 - Soft wall AdS/QCD

I discuss the soft wall AdS/QCD model introduced by Batell&Gherghetta, where AdS gravity and dilaton behavior providing soft wall cutoff is introduced self-consistently.


35. Lectures on AdS/CFT by Maldacena

Lectures on AdS/CFT by Juan Maldacena


29. Eye on ArXiv: 28 Apr 2008 - D3/D7 brane inflation

I would like to briefly discuss the paper
Michael Haack, Renata Kallosh, Axel Krause, Andrei Linde, Dieter Lust, Marco Zagermann, “Update of D3/D7-Brane Inflation on K3 x T^2/Z_2″
released last friday. (…)


28. Eye on ArXiv: 24 Apr 2008 - dS vacua in no-scale SUGRA; multifield DBI inflation

Laura Covi et al., de Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models; D. Langlois et al., Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in multi-field DBI inflation