The inflationary wavefunction and its initial conditions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Carney, Daniel ^a   Fischler, Willy ^a   Paban, Sonia ^a   Sivanandam, Navin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ination; initial conditions and eternal universe; quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871768208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/012     Document Type: Article

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