Inflaton fragmentation and oscillon formation in three dimensions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Amin, Mustafa A ^a,b   Easther, Richard ^a,b   Finkel, Hal ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological phase transitions; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651507146     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/001     Document Type: Article

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