Observing the structure of the landscape with the CMB experiments

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ashoorioon, Amjad ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cosmological phase transitions; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951577489     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/002     Document Type: Article

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