Natural and multi-natural inflation in axion landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Higaki, Tetsutaro ^a   Takahashi, Fuminobu ^b,c  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904752252     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)074     Document Type: Article

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