We review applications of string theory to cosmology, from primordial times to the present-
day accelerated expansion. Starting with a brief overview of cosmology and string …

Our understanding of the state of the universe between the end of inflation and big bang
nucleosynthesis (BBN) is incomplete. The dynamics at the end of inflation are rich and a …

Abstract Releasing the 12.5-year pulsar timing array data, the North American Nanohertz
Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has recently reported the evidence for a …

The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

The current flow of high accuracy astrophysical data, among which are the Cosmic
Microwave Background (CMB) measurements by the Planck satellite, offers an …

We explicitly construct a double-field inflationary model, which satisfies the latest Planck
constraints at the cosmic microwave background (CMB) scales and produces the whole dark …

We review the particle theory origin of inflation and curvaton mechanisms for generating
large scale structures and the observed temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave …

A bstract Models of large-field inflation based on axion-like fields with shift symmetries can
be simple and natural, and make a promising prediction of detectable primordial …

We analyze string-theoretic large-field inflation in the regime of spontaneously-broken
supergravity with conventional moduli stabilization by fluxes and non-perturbative effects …

A bstract We present strong evidence that the tree level slow roll bounds of arXiv:
1807.05193 and arXiv: 1810.05506 are valid, even when the tachyon has overlap with the …