Grand unified inflation confronts WMAP

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 847-853

  Kyae, Bumseok ^a   Shafi, Qaisar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

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EID: 23044499891     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/036     Document Type: Article

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