Duality cascade in brane inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Bean, Rachel ^a   Chen, Xingang ^b,c   Hailu, Girma ^d   Henry Tye, S H ^c,d   Xu, Jiajun ^c,d  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^d Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049101470     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/03/026     Document Type: Article

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