Inflation on an open racetrack

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Heng Yu ^a   Hung, Ling Yan ^b   Shiu, Gary ^a,c  

^a University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649515775     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/083     Document Type: Article

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