Stochastic samples versus vacuum expectation values in cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Tsamis, N C ^a   Tzetzias, Aggelos ^a   Woodard, R P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternatives to inflation; Cosmological perturbation theory; Gravity; Quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449288559     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/016     Document Type: Article

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