General conditions for scale-invariant perturbations in an expanding universe

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Geshnizjani, Ghazal ^a   Kinney, William H ^a   Dizgah, Azadeh Moradinezhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

alternatives to inflation; inflation; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955220307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/049     Document Type: Article

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