Inflation and the semiclassical dynamics of a conformal scalar field

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Alberghi, G L ^a   Appignani, C ^a   Casadio, R ^a   Sbisa F ^a   Tronconi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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EID: 41049101822     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044002     Document Type: Article

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