Cosmological moduli and the post-inflationary universe: A critical review
Cosmological moduli and the post-inflationary universe: A critical review
We critically review the role of cosmological moduli in determining the post-inflationary history of the universe. Moduli are ubiquitous in string and M-theory constructions of beyond the Standard Model physics, where they parametrize the geometry of the compactification manifold. For those with masses determined by supersymmetry breaking this leads to …