Planck constraints on monodromy inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Easther, Richard ^a   Flauger, Raphael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBR; ination; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897690420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/037     Document Type: Article

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