Models for Compactification from Inflation?

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The discussion highlights a paper advocating for evolving extensions to inflation models, emphasizing the potential for new insights in cosmology. It references recent research on circumventing the no-go theorem for accelerating universes in M theory through a time-varying internal space, although this space is expanding rather than compactifying. Additionally, it notes a resurgence of interest in string inflation following a significant 2003 paper by Linde and Maldacena. The conversation underscores the ongoing exploration of compactification models in the context of inflationary theory. Overall, these developments suggest a dynamic landscape in theoretical physics regarding the interplay between inflation and compactification.
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Here is a good paper that is quite neat makes a good case for evolving extensions to Inflation models.


http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0307/0307179.pdf
 
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http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0411/0411093.pdf

This is a more recent discussion of how the no-go theorem for accelerating universes in M theory can be evaded by a time varying internal space. However, it seems that the internal space is expanding rather than compactifying.
 
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