Models of the early universe and the origin of structure
Inflation is a period of the very early universe during which the universe undergoes an extremely rapid expansion. Vacuum fluctuations of any light scalar field are enlarged by the expansion and generate the primordial density perturbations of the universe on all scales. This thesis is about these p...
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University of Portsmouth
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494146 |