Statistical anisotropy of the curvature perturbation from vector field perturbations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Dimopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Karčiauskas, Mindaugas ^a   Lyth, David H ^a   Rodríguez, Yeinzon ^b,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe; Power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349579587     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/05/013     Document Type: Article

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