Cosmological density perturbations from conformal scalar field: Infrared properties and statistical anisotropy

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Libanov, M ^a   Rubakov, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alternatives to inflation; Cosmological perturbation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649782715     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/045     Document Type: Article

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