Brane inflation and defect formation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1877, 2008, Pages 2833-2842

  Davis, Anne Christine ^a   Brax, Philippe ^b   Van De Bruck, Carsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DIF   (France)

^c Probability and Statistics Section   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brane inflation; Cosmic superstrings; Moduli stabilization

Indexed keywords

COSMIC STRINGS; DEFECT FORMATION; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 47249089466     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0065     Document Type: Article

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