Inflation after WMAP3: Confronting the slow-roll and exact power spectra with CMB data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Martin, Jérôme ^a   Ringeval, Christophe ^b  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Trans Planckian physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649032071     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/08/009     Document Type: Article

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