Brane-antibrane inflation in orbifold and orientifold models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1249-1276

  Burgess, Cliff P ^a   Martineau, P ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^b   Rajesh, Govindan ^c   Zhang, R J ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044485840     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/052     Document Type: Article

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