Signals of inflation in a friendly string landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  March Russell, John ^a   Riva, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; dS vacua in string theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748784618     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/033     Document Type: Article

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