Hilltop inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 7, 2005, Pages 133-154

  Boubekeur, Lotfi ^a   Lyth, David H ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Cosmologicl perturbation theory; Inflation cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844487746     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2005/07/010     Document Type: Article

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