Asymptotically safe inflation

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Weinberg, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 77952324035     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.083535     Document Type: Article

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