Towards matter inflation in heterotic string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Antusch, Stefan ^a   Dutta, Koushik ^b   Erdmenger, Johanna ^a   Halter, Sebastian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supergravity models; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053277665     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2011)065     Document Type: Article

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