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Inflation by Marieke Postma

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Inflation
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Publisher: NIKHEF
Number of pages: 53

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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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