On the importance of heavy fields during inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Céspedes, Sebastián ^a   Atal, Vicente ^b   Palma, Gonzalo A ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; ination; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861016707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/008     Document Type: Article

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