Ghost inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a   Creminelli, Paolo ^a   Mukohyama, Shinji ^a   Zaldarriaga, Matias ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244443125     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/04/001     Document Type: Article

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