Non-Gaussianities in multi-field inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Battefeld, Thorsten ^a   Easther, Richard ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation, axions; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749099960     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/03/020     Document Type: Article

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