N-flation

被引:394
作者
Dimopoulos, S. [1 ]
Kachru, S. [1 ,2 ]
McGreevy, J. [1 ]
Wacker, J. G. [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Menlo Pk, CA 94309 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2008年 / 08期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
string theory and cosmology; inflation;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/003
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The presence of many axion fields in four-dimensional string vacua can lead to a simple, radiatively stable realization of chaotic inflation.
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