Primordial features as evidence for inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Xingang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alternatives to inflation; cosmological perturbation theory; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863012264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/01/038     Document Type: Article

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