Thermal fluctuations and bouncing cosmologies

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Cai, Yi Fu ^a   Xue, Wei ^b   Brandenberger, Robert ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Xinmin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Alternatives to inflation; Cosmological perturbation theory; Physics of the early universe; Transplanckian physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350666045     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/037     Document Type: Article

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