Decoupling survives inflation: A critical look at effective field theory violations during inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Avgoustidis, Anastasios ^a,d   Cremonini, Sera ^a,b   Davis, Anne Christine ^a   Ribeiro, Raquel H ^a   Turzyski, Krzysztof ^c   Watson, Scott ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; ination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863565927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/025     Document Type: Article

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