Inflection point inflation: WMAP constraints and a solution to the fine tuning problem

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hotchkiss, Shaun ^a   Mazumdar, Anupam ^b,c   Nadathur, Seshadri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SM; ination; physics of the early universe; supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959956927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/002     Document Type: Article

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