Eternal chaotic inflation is prohibited by the weak gravity conjecture

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Qing Guo ^a   Li, Miao ^b,c   Wang, Yi ^b,c  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049050140     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/09/013     Document Type: Article

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