Are inflationary predictions sensitive to very high energy physics?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1091-1115

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a   Cline, James M ^a   Lemieux, François ^a   Holman, Richard ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Physics of the Early Universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044438444     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/048     Document Type: Article

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