Fourth-order gravity as the inflationary model revisited

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 25, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 2753-2762

  Kaneda, Sho ^a   Ketov, Sergei V ^a,b   Watanabe, Natsuki ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmology; inflation; modified gravity; spectral index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958013801     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732310033918     Document Type: Article

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