Action approach to cosmological perturbations: The second-order metric in matter dominance

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Boubekeur, Lotfi ^a   Creminelli, Paolo ^a   Norẽa, Jorge ^b   Vernizzi, Filippo ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349168506     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/08/028     Document Type: Article

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