Arjun Berera, Thomas W. Kephart
Published 1999-04-20, updated 1999-07-26Version 3
A string theory based inflationary model is developed where the inflaton interacts with a multitude of massive string level states causing dissipation of vacuum energy. Inflation terminates in a warm Universe without the need for reheating.
Comments: In Press Physical Review Letters 1999, modified title
Journal: Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 1084-1087
Space-Time Duality and Vacuum Energy
On contributions of fundamental particles to the vacuum energy
Vacuum energy of CP(1) solitons
