On non-Gaussianities in two-field poly-instanton inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Gao, Xin ^a,b   Shukla, Pramod ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876270586     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)061     Document Type: Article

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