Brane annihilations during inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Battefeld, Diana ^a   Battefeld, Thorsten ^a   Firouzjahi, Hassan ^b   Khosravi, Nima ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955369037     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/07/009     Document Type: Article

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