Inflationary potentials in DBI models

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bessada, Dennis ^a,b   Kinney, William H ^a   Tzirakis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternatives to inflation; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350694061     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/031     Document Type: Article

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