Charting an inflationary landscape with random matrix theory

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Marsh, M C David ^a   McAllister, Liam ^b   Pajer, Enrico ^c   Wrase, Timm ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

inflation; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888405359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/040     Document Type: Article

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