Chain inflation revisited

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Chialva, Diego ^a   Danielsson, Ulf H ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Cosmological phase transitions; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449093863     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/10/012     Document Type: Article

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