A covariant approach to general field space metric in multi-field inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gong, Jinn Ouk ^a   Tanaka, Takahiro ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; inflation; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953652986     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/03/015     Document Type: Article

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