Late D-term Inflation and the Cosmological Moduli Problem in TeV Scale Strings

We show that a short period of late D-term inflation can solve the cosmological moduli (radion) problem of (asymmetric) inflation at the TeV scale. Late inflation happens after the large compact dimensions are stabilized which is crucial for obtaining the extremely small Hubble constant and inflaton mass required.Comment: 12 pages in phyzzx.tex, one reference adde

M(atrix) Black Holes in Five Dimensions

We examine five dimensional extreme black holes with three charges in the matrix model. We build configurations of the 5+1 super Yang-Mills theory which correspond to black holes with transverse momentum charge. We calculate their mass and entropy from the super Yang-Mills theory and find that they match the semi-classical black hole results. We extend our results to nonextreme black holes in the dilute gas approximation.Comment: 20 pages in phyzzx.tex, three references adde

Supergravity on AdS4/7×S7/4AdS_{4/7} \times S^{7/4} and M Branes

We calculate the dimensions of operators in three and six dimensional superconformal field theories by using the duality between these theories at large N and D=11 supergravity on $AdS_{4/7} \times S^{7/4}$. We find that for the duality relations to work the Kaluza--Klein masses given in the supergravity literature must be rescaled and/or shifted.Comment: 10 pages on phyzzx.tex, typo (in eq. (20)) and TeX corrections, some Comments adde