Publications (64)
A sufficient condition for de Sitter vacua in type IIB string theory
Markus Rummel, Alexander Westphal
More Exact Tunneling Solutions in Scalar Field Theory
Koushik Dutta, Cecelie Hector, Pascal M. Vaudrevange +1
The Scale of Inflation in the Landscape
Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal
String Cosmology - Large-Field Inflation in String Theory
Alexander Westphal
Towards de Sitter from 10D
Jakob Moritz, Ander Retolaza, Alexander Westphal
Towards Axion Monodromy Inflation with Warped KK-Modes
Arthur Hebecker, Jakob Moritz, Alexander Westphal +1
Axion Monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Arthur Hebecker, Fabrizio Rompineve, Alexander Westphal
Fibre Inflation and $α$-attractors
Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Diederik Roest +2
Vacuum energy sequestering and conformal symmetry
Ido Ben-Dayan, Robert Richter, Fabian Ruehle +1
Just enough inflation: power spectrum modifications at large scales
Michele Cicoli, Sean Downes, Bhaskar Dutta +2
Building an explicit de Sitter
Jan Louis, Markus Rummel, Roberto Valandro +1
Metastable Electroweak Vacuum: Implications for Inflation
Oleg Lebedev, Alexander Westphal
Non-Equilibrium Random Matrix Theory : Transition Probabilities
Francisco Gil Pedro, Alexander Westphal
Holography of Dyonic Dilaton Black Branes
Kevin Goldstein, Norihiro Iizuka, Shamit Kachru +3
Moduli stabilization and SUSY breaking in heterotic orbifold string models
Ben Dundee, Stuart Raby, Alexander Westphal
Pole N-flation
Mafalda Dias, Jonathan Frazer, Ander Retolaza +2
Accidental Inflation from Kähler Uplifting
Ido Ben-Dayan, Shenglin Jing, Alexander Westphal +1
Consistent de Sitter String Vacua from Kahler Stabilization and D-term uplifting
Susha L. Parameswaran, Alexander Westphal
An Etude on Global Vacuum Energy Sequester
Guido D'Amico, Nemanja Kaloper, Antonio Padilla +3
Runaway Relaxion Monodromy
Liam McAllister, Pedro Schwaller, Geraldine Servant +2
The Powers of Monodromy
Liam McAllister, Eva Silverstein, Alexander Westphal +1
Thraxions: Ultralight Throat Axions
Arthur Hebecker, Sascha Leonhardt, Jakob Moritz +1
Simple exercises to flatten your potential
Xi Dong, Bart Horn, Eva Silverstein +1
A Toy Model For Single Field Open Inflation
Pascal M. Vaudrevange, Alexander Westphal
Drifting Oscillations in Axion Monodromy
Raphael Flauger, Liam McAllister, Eva Silverstein +1
Low-l CMB Power Loss in String Inflation
Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal
$R^2\log R$ quantum corrections and the inflationary observables
Ido Ben-Dayan, Shenglin Jing, Mahdi Torabian +2
Eternal Inflation with alpha'-Corrections
Alexander Westphal
de Sitter String Vacua from Kahler Uplifting
Alexander Westphal
Challenges for Large-Field Inflation and Moduli Stabilization
Wilfried Buchmuller, Emilian Dudas, Lucien Heurtier +3
Disentangling the $f(R)$ - Duality
Benedict J. Broy, Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal
Heterotic Moduli Stabilisation
Michele Cicoli, Senarath de Alwis, Alexander Westphal
Hierarchical Axion Inflation
Ido Ben-Dayan, Francisco Gil Pedro, Alexander Westphal
Higher-Derivative Supergravity and Moduli Stabilization
David Ciupke, Jan Louis, Alexander Westphal
Gravity Waves and Linear Inflation from Axion Monodromy
Liam McAllister, Eva Silverstein, Alexander Westphal
Pole Inflation - Shift Symmetry and Universal Corrections
Benedict J. Broy, Mario Galante, Diederik Roest +1
Validity of the kink approximation to the tunneling action
Koushik Dutta, Cecelie Hector, Thomas Konstandin +2
Finding all flux vacua in an explicit example
Danny Martinez-Pedrera, Dhagash Mehta, Markus Rummel +1
Bifid Throats for Axion Monodromy Inflation
Ander Retolaza, Angel M. Uranga, Alexander Westphal
Lifetime of Stringy de Sitter Vacua
Alexander Westphal
The Overshoot Problem in Inflation after Tunneling
Koushik Dutta, Pascal M. Vaudrevange, Alexander Westphal
Towards Natural Inflation in String Theory
Ido Ben-Dayan, Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal
Inflation with a graceful exit in a random landscape
Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal
Oscillations in the CMB from Axion Monodromy Inflation
Raphael Flauger, Liam McAllister, Enrico Pajer +2
Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation
Eva Silverstein, Alexander Westphal
Moduli Stabilization in Meta-Stable Heterotic Supergravity Vacua
Marco Serone, Alexander Westphal
Quantum states of neutrons in the gravitational field and limits for non-Newtonian interaction in the range between 1 micron and 10 microns
Hartmut Abele, Stefan Baessler, Alexander Westphal
Resonant non-Gaussianity with equilateral properties
Rhiannon Gwyn, Markus Rummel, Alexander Westphal
Inflation as an Information Bottleneck - A strategy for identifying universality classes and making robust predictions
Mafalda Dias, Jonathan Frazer, Alexander Westphal
Power Spectrum of Inflationary Attractors
Benedict J. Broy, Diederik Roest, Alexander Westphal
Gravity waves and the LHC: Towards high-scale inflation with low-energy SUSY
Temple He, Shamit Kachru, Alexander Westphal
An Exact Tunneling Solution in a Simple Realistic Landscape
Koushik Dutta, Pascal M. Vaudrevange, Alexander Westphal
Primordial Gravitational Waves and the Swampland
Mafalda Dias, Jonathan Frazer, Ander Retolaza +1
Analytically derived limits on short-range fifth forces from quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field
Alexander Westphal, Hartmut Abele, Stefan Baessler
Starobinsky-Type Inflation from $α'$-Corrections
Benedict J. Broy, David Ciupke, Francisco G. Pedro +1
Observational consequences of chaotic inflation with nonminimal coupling to gravity
Andrei Linde, Mahdiyar Noorbala, Alexander Westphal
Evading the Lyth Bound in Hybrid Natural Inflation
Arthur Hebecker, Sebastian C. Kraus, Alexander Westphal
Tensor modes on the string theory landscape
Alexander Westphal
On Moduli Spaces in $\bf{AdS_4}$ Supergravity
Senarath de Alwis, Jan Louis, Liam McAllister +2
Relations between canonical and non-canonical inflation
Rhiannon Gwyn, Markus Rummel, Alexander Westphal
A quantum mechanical description of the experiment on the observation of gravitationally bound states
Alexander Westphal, H. Abele, S. Baessler +4
Accidental Inflation in String Theory
Andrei Linde, Alexander Westphal
de Sitter String Vacua from Perturbative Kahler Corrections and Consistent D-terms
Susha L. Parameswaran, Alexander Westphal
Chaotic Inflation in Supergravity after Planck and BICEP2
Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Alexander Westphal