Accidental inflation in the landscape

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Blanco Pillado, Jose J ^a,b,c   Gomez Reino, Marta ^d   Metallinos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

cosmology with extra dimensions; ination; string theory and cosmology; supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874680734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/034     Document Type: Article

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