Decoupling in an expanding universe: Boundary RG-flow affects initial conditions for inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1749-1800

  Schalm, Koenraad ^a   Shiu, Gary ^b   Van Der Schaar, Jan Pieter ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044464283     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/076     Document Type: Article

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