Extranatural inflation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2213021-2213024

  Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a   Cheng, Hsin Chia ^a   Creminelli, Paolo ^a   Randall, Lisa ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FERMIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EXTRANATURAL INFLATION;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0038454633     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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