Recent Progress in String Inflationary Cosmology

Abstract

Super--inflation driven by dilaton/moduli kinetic energy is naturally realized in compactified string theory. Discussed are selected topics of recent development in string inflationary cosmology: kinematics of super-inflation, graceful exit triggered by quantum back reaction, and clasical and quantum power spectra of density and metric perturbations.

Comments: 5 pages, latex, jkas2.sty file included, typos corrected. Invited talk at 7th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Astronomical Union, August 19 - 23, 1996. To be published in the proceeding