Warped tachyonic inflation in type-IIB flux compactifications and the open-string completeness conjecture

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2557-2594

  Cremades, Daniel ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^a   Sinha, Aninda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544510611     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/106     Document Type: Article

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