The volume of the universe after inflation and de Sitter entropy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dubovsky, Sergei ^a,b   Leonardo Senatore, ^c,d,e   Giovanni Villadoro, ^f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Models of quantum gravity; Space time symmetries; Spacetime singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650234012     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/118     Document Type: Article

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