Spontaneous creation of inflationary universes and the cosmic landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1527-1579

  Firouzjahi, Hassan ^a   Sarangi, Saswat ^a   Tye, S H Henry ^a  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Models of Quantum Gravity; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044515000     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/060     Document Type: Article

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