A conformal field theory for eternal inflation?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Freivogel, Ben ^a,b   Kleban, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal field Models in string Theory; DS vacua in string theory; Gauge gravity correspondence; Space time symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549115497     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/019     Document Type: Article

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