Natural inflation and quantum gravity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 15, 2015, Pages

  De La Fuente, Anton ^a   Saraswat, Prashant ^a,b   Sundrum, Raman ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION;

COSMIC INFLATIONS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; EARLY UNIVERSE; EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; INFLATION MODELS; LOW-ENERGY LIMIT; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84929590721     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.151303     Document Type: Article

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