Inflaton decay in de Sitter spacetime

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1958-1972

  Boyanovsky, D ^a   Holman, R ^b   Prem Kumar, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007547789     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1958     Document Type: Article

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