F-term axion monodromy inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Marchesano, Fernando ^a   Shiu, Gary ^b,c   Uranga, Angel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913539997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)184     Document Type: Article

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