Probability of inflation in loop quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3619-3655

  Ashtekar, Abhay ^a   Sloan, David ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Inflation; Loop quantum gravity; Measures; Probability; WMAP 7 year data

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555208199     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-011-1246-y     Document Type: Article

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