Constraining the early universe with primordial black holes

Inflation is the leading candidate to explain the initial conditions for the Universe we see today. It consists of an epoch of accelerated expansion, and regularly solves many problems with the Big Bang theory. Non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation can potentially be used to discr...

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Main Author: Young, Samuel Mark
Published: University of Sussex 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698672