Semiclassical relations and IR effects in de Sitter and slow-roll space-times

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Giddings, Steven B ^a   Sloth, Martin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551666059     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/023     Document Type: Article

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