The exact spectrum of scalar field perturbations in a radiation deformed closed de Sitter universe

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Sarangi, Sash ^a   Schalm, Koenraad ^b   Shiu, Gary ^c   Van Der Schaar, Jan Pieter ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; Quantum field theory on curved space; Quantum gravity phenomenology; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749107021     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/03/002     Document Type: Article

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