Eva Silverstein
Stanford University
196 Papers
2K Citations
Eva Silverstein is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: String theory & String (physics). The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 188 publications. Previous affiliations of Eva Silverstein include Harvard University & Princeton University.
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Papers
DBI in the sky
TL;DR: In this article, the spectrum of density perturbations generated in models of the recently discovered "D-cceleration" mechanism of inflation was analyzed, and it was shown that the model has a strict lower bound on the non-Gaussianity of the CMBR power spectrum at an observable level.
Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a simple mechanism for obtaining large-field inflation, and hence a gravitational wave signature, from string theory compactified on twisted tori, yielding predictions for the tilt of the power spectrum and the tensor-to-scalar ratio.
Gravity Waves and Linear Inflation from Axion Monodromy
TL;DR: In this article, a general mechanism for chaotic inflation driven by monodromy-extended closed-string axions is proposed, compatible with moduli stabilization and can be realized in many types of compactifications, including warped Calabi-Yau manifolds and more general Ricci-curved spaces.
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Scalar speed limits and cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration
Eva Silverstein,David Tong +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the motion of a rolling scalar field explicitly in the strong coupling regime of the field theory, and extend the analysis to cosmological systems obtained by coupling this type of field theory to four dimensional gravity.
String Cosmology: A Review
Liam McAllister,Eva Silverstein +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of the status of string cosmology can be found in this article, where the focus is on those aspects of cosmology that benefit from the structure of an ultraviolet-complete theory.