Transplanckian Censorship and Global Cosmic Strings
by
Matthew Dolan
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Europe/Berlin
Seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)
Seminar room 2, building 2A
DESY Hamburg
Description
Observing primordial gravitational waves requires large-field models of cosmological inflation. I will discuss the difficulties in implementing models of large-field inflation, and the possibility that transplanckian physics is 'censored' in General Relativity. I will discuss recent conjectures along these lines, and some indirect evidence from studies of global cosmic strings which exist in some inflationary models.
