Origin of the Universe

Dear Colleagues,

The birth of the universe out of the M-theory landscape remains an important question in modern cosmology. Questions such as “Why are the only three large spatial dimensions?”, “What drives inflation?”, and “Is there observable evidence of the birth of the universe out of the M-theory landscape?” are subjects of active debate. We invite colleagues to submit papers on the following topics:

1. Trans-Plankian inflation
2. Models of inflation
3. Constraints on Inflation effective potentials
4. Brane-world inflation
5. Constraints on Inflation initial conditions
6. Primordial gravitational waves
7. Cosmic dark flow and large-scale structure
8. Origin of the cold spot in the CMB
9. Anomalies in the CMB from inflation and the M-theory landscape
10. Supersymmetric Inflation
11. Primordial nucleosynthesis constraints on the birth of the universe
12. Constraints on time-varying fundamental constants
13. Constraints on anisotropic cosmological models
14. Why are there three large dimensions

Prof. Dr. Grant J. Mathews
Prof. Dr. Laura Mersini Houghton
Guest Editors

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