Separable and non-separable multi-field inflation and large non-Gaussianity

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Mazumdar, Anupam ^a,b   Wang, Lingfei ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cosmological perturbation theory; Inflation; Non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866297994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/005     Document Type: Article

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