Uniqueness of the gauge invariant action for cosmological perturbations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Prokopec, Tomislav ^a   Weenink, Jan ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; quantum cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871804958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/031     Document Type: Article

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