Multi-field inflation with random potentials: Field dimension, feature scale and non-Gaussianity

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Frazer, Jonathan ^a   Liddle, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; ination; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857852401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/039     Document Type: Article

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