Combining universal and odd RR axions for aligned natural inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Gao, Xin ^a,b   Li, Tianjun ^a,c   Shukla, Pramod ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

axions; inflation; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908622349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/048     Document Type: Article

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