On the health of a vector field with RA2/6 coupling to gravity

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Karčiauskas, Mindaugas ^a   Lyth, David H ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe; Primordial magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649800498     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/023     Document Type: Article

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