Constraining holographic inflation with WMAP

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Easther, Richard ^a   Flauger, Raphael ^a   McFadden, Paul ^b   Skenderis, Kostas ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

alternatives to inflation; cosmological parameters from CMBR; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053552857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/030     Document Type: Article

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