UV-protected (natural) inflation: Primordial fluctuations and non-gaussian features

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Germani, Cristiano ^a   Watanabe, Yuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; inflation; modified gravity; non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961223166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/031     Document Type: Article

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