Quantum cosmological correlations in an inflating universe: Can fermion and gauge field loops give a scale-free spectrum?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Chaicherdsakul, Kanokkuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 34047132774     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.063522     Document Type: Article

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