The inflationary bispectrum with curved field-space

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Elliston, Joseph ^a   Seery, David ^b   Tavakol, Reza ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological perturbation theory; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896774643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/060     Document Type: Article

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