WKB approximation for inflationary cosmological perturbations

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Martin, Jérôme ^a   Schwarz, Dominik J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COSMOS; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; PREDICTION;

EID: 3843142781     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.083512     Document Type: Article

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