Evading the pulsar constraints on the cosmic string tension in supergravity inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kamada, Kohei ^a   Miyamoto, Yuhei ^b,c   Yokoyama, Jun'Ichi ^b,c  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings; cosmological phase transitions; domain walls; gravitational waves sources; inflation; monopoles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868223031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/10/023     Document Type: Article

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