Rapidly-varying speed of sound, scale invariance and non-Gaussian signatures

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Khoury, Justin ^a   Piazza, Federico ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ination; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350641799     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/026     Document Type: Article

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