Reexamination of the power spectrum in de sitter inflation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Agulló, Iván ^a   Navarro Salas, José ^a   Olmo, Gonzalo J ^b,c   Parker, Leonard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

FLUCTUATION FIELDS; INERTIAL PARTICLES; PHYSICAL POWERS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; SCALE-FREE;

POWER SPECTRUM;

EID: 55049142449     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171301     Document Type: Article

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