Conformal invariance, dark energy, and CMB non-gaussianity

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Antoniadis, Ignatios ^a   Mazur, Pawel O ^b   Mottola, Emil ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; dark energy theory; non gaussianity; quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866885505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/024     Document Type: Article

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