The inflationary brane-antibrane universe

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a   Majumdar, Mahbub ^a   Nolte, Detlef ^b   Quevedo, Fernando ^c   Rajesh, Govindan ^c   Zhang, Ren Jie ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33744735703     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/047     Document Type: Article

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