D-brane potentials in the warped resolved conifold and natural inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kenton, Zachary ^a   Thomas, Steven ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923762849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)127     Document Type: Article

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