Path integral duality and Planck scale corrections to the primordial spectrum in exponential inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Sriramkumar, L ^a   Shankaranarayanan, S ^b,c  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Models of Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846137324     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/050     Document Type: Review

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