Liberating the inflaton from primordial spectrum constraints

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2004, Pages 139-151

  Armendariz Picon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; Physics of the early universe; Quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244446669     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/03/009     Document Type: Article

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