On the construction of quintessential inflation models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Peloso, Marco ^a,b   Rosati, Francesca ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark Matter; Physics of the Early Universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646043776     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/12/026     Document Type: Article

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