nLab Robert Brandenberger

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Selected writings

Introducing what came to be called the Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism in string theoretic cosmology:

• Robert Brandenberger, Cumrun Vafa: Superstrings in the Early Universe, Nucl. Phys. B 316 (1989) 391 [spire263348, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90037-0]

On non-perturbative string theoretic cosmology (and the Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism) via the BFSS/IKKT matrix model:

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Cosmology from Matrix Theory, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 67 (2022) [arXiv:2107.11512, doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2022)067]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Early Universe Cosmology from BFSS Matrix Theory, International Journal of Modern Physics D 31 14 (2022) 2242004 [arXiv:2205.06016, doi:10.1142/S0218271822420044]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Metric Space-Time from Matrix Theory, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 31 (2022) [arXiv:2206.12468, doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2022)031]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: BFSS Matrix Model Cosmology: Progress and Challenges, Physics 5 1 (2023) [arXiv:2210.07288, doi:10.3390/physics5010001]

• Robert Brandenberger: Emergent Metric Space-Time from the BFSS Matrix Model, talk at Perimeter Institute (May 2023) [doi:10.48660/23050109, video:pirsa:23050109, slides:pdf]

• Robert Brandenberger, Julia Pasiecznik: On the Origin of the $SO(9) \to SO(3) \times SO(6)$ Symmetry Breaking in the IKKT Matrix Model [arXiv:2409.00254, spire:2824186]

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• Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism

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