Inflationary correlation functions without infrared divergences

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gerstenlauer, Mischa ^a   Hebecker, Arthur ^a   Tasinato, Gianmassimo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959939879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/021     Document Type: Article

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