A geometric bound on F-term inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Borghese, Andrea ^a   Roest, Diederik ^a   Zavala, Ivonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supergravity models; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866858693     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)021     Document Type: Article

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