Towards an explicit model of D-brane inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Baumann, Daniel ^a   Dymarsky, Anatoly ^a   Klebanov, Igor R ^a   McAllister, Liam ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949107434     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/01/024     Document Type: Article

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