Non-standard primordial fluctuations and nongaussianity in string inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b   Cicoli, M ^c   Gomez Reino M ^d,e   Quevedo, F ^f,g   Tasinato, G ^h   Zavala, I ⁱ  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^h INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955888343     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)045     Document Type: Article

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