Horizon ratio bound for inflationary fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Dodelson, Scott ^a   Hui, Lam ^a  

^a NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COSMIC RAYS; MICROWAVES;

ENERGY DENSITY;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0242384615     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.131301     Document Type: Article

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