Must cosmological perturbations remain nonadiabatic after multifield inflation?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Weinberg, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICS; THERMODYNAMICS; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84927755845     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083522     Document Type: Article

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