D3/D7 brane inflation and semilocal strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 815-850

  Dasgupta, Keshav ^a   Hsu, Jonathan P ^a   Kallosh, Renata ^a   Linde, Andrei ^a   Zagermann, Marco ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes; F Theory; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044472832     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/030     Document Type: Review

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