Can nonadiabatic perturbations arise after single-field inflation?

Physical Review D

Volumn 70, Issue 4 A, 2004, Pages

  Weinberg, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 19544390493     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.043541     Document Type: Article

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