Primordial non-Gaussianities of general multiple-field inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Gao, Xian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249130767     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/06/029     Document Type: Article

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