Racetrack inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1551-1574

  Blanco Pillado, Jose J ^a   Burgess, Clifford P ^b   Cline, James M ^b   Escoda, Cristina ^c   Gómez Reino, Marta ^d   Kallosh, Renata ^e   Linde, Andrei D ^e   Quevedo, Fernando ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044482863     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/063     Document Type: Article

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