Constraining inflationary scenarios with braneworld models and second order cosmological perturbations

Inflationary cosmology is the leading explanation of the very early universe. Many diff erent models of inflation have been constructed which fit current observational data. In this work theoretical and numerical methods for constraining the parameter space of a wide class of such models are describ...

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Main Author: Huston, Ian
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2010
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516704