Gravitational wave constraints on multi-brane inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Huston, Ian ^a   Lidsey, James E ^a   Thomas, Steven ^a   Ward, John ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inflation; Physics of the early universe; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449161519     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/05/016     Document Type: Article

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