Brane inflation, solitons and cosmological solutions: I

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages 171-265

  Chen, Pisin ^a   Dasgupta, Keshav ^b   Narayan, K ^c   Shmakova, Marina ^a   Zagermann, Marco ^d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; F Theory; M Theory; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044474187     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/009     Document Type: Article

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