N-flation with hierarchically light axions in string compactifications

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Cicoli, Michele ^a,b,c   Dutta, Koushik ^d   Maharana, Anshuman ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^e HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

axions; inflation; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918773342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/012     Document Type: Article

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