Non-Gaussianities in N-flation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Battefeld, Diana ^a   Battefeld, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947672590     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/05/012     Document Type: Article

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