Landscape, the scale of SUSY breaking, and inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 99-111

  Kallosh, Renata ^a   Linde, Andrei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444433259     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/004     Document Type: Article

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