Inflation
by Marieke Postma
Publisher: NIKHEF 2009
Number of pages: 53
Description:
Contents: Big Bang Cosmology; Inflation; Cosmological perturbations; CMB data; Particle physics models of inflation; Brane inflation; Literature; Curvature perturbation constant on superhorizon scales; Moduli are massless modes in the 4D EFT.
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