Weak gravity conjecture constraints on inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Qing Guo ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547606602     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/096     Document Type: Article

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