Cosmological perturbations in the new Higgs inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Germani, Cristiano ^a   Kehagias, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Modified gravity; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952792850     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/05/019     Document Type: Article

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