The inflationary trispectrum

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Seery, David ^a   Lidsey, James E ^a   Sloth, Martin S ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749100418     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/027     Document Type: Article

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