Cosmological moduli dynamics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Greene, Brian ^a   Judes, Simon ^a   Levin, Janna ^a,b   Watson, Scott ^c   Weltman, Amanda ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Spacetime singularities; Supergravity models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547650808     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/060     Document Type: Article

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