Inflationary infrared divergences: Geometry of the reheating surface vs. δ N formalism

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Byrnes, C T ^a   Gerstenlauer, M ^b   Hebecker, A ^b   Nurmi, S ^b   Tasinato, G ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449296263     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/08/006     Document Type: Article

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