Universality of the volume bound in slow-roll eternal inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Dubovsky, Sergei ^a   Senatore, Leonardo ^b,c   Villadoro, Giovanni ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Models of quantum gravity; Space time symmetries; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861898005     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)035     Document Type: Article

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