Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single-field inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Xingang ^a,b   Huang, Min Xin ^c   Kachru, Shamit ^d   Shiu, Gary ^c  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749108342     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/002     Document Type: Article

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