Why should primordial perturbations be in a vacuum state?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Armendariz Picon, C ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Quantum field theory on curved space; Trans Planckian physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649030672     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/02/031     Document Type: Article

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