The new ekpyrotic ghost

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Kallosh, Renata ^a,b   Kang, Jin U ^b,c   Linde, Andrei ^a,b   Mukhanov, Viatcheslav ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY   (North Korea)

Author keywords

inflation; quantum field theory on curved space; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879033467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/04/018     Document Type: Article

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