A field range bound for general single-field inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Baumann, Daniel ^a   Green, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

gravitational waves and CMBR polarization; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861809531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/017     Document Type: Article

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