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Contents
8.7 Exercises
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8.8 General references
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Bibliography
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9 Superstring cosmology
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9.1 Introduction
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9.2
9.3
Dilaton and moduli cosmology
Stabilization of the dilaton
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9.4
9.5
9.6
Dilaton or moduli as possible inflatons
Ten-dimensional string cosmology
D-brane inflation
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9.7
9.8
9.9
Pre-big-bang cosmology
M-theory cosmology-the ekpyrotic universe
Exercises
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9.10 General references
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10 Black holes in string theory
10.1 Introduction
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10.2 Black-hole event horizons
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10.3 Entropy of black holes
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10.4 Perturbative microstates in string theory
10.5 Extreme black holes
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10.6 lYpe 11 supergravity
10.7 Form fields and D-branes
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10.8 Black holes in string theory
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10.9 Counting the microstates
IO.lO Problems
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10.11 General references
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Bibliography
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Index
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