A new method for calculating the primordial bispectrum in the squeezed limit

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ganc, Jonathan ^a   Komatsu, Eiichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Non gaussianity; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651504104     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/009     Document Type: Article

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