M-flation: Inflation from matrix valued scalar fields

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ashoorioon, Amjad ^a   Firouzjahi, Hassan ^b   Sheikh Jabbari, M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350653738     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/018     Document Type: Article

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