Imprints of short distance physics on inflationary cosmology

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作者
Easther, R [1 ]
Greene, BR
Kinney, WH
Shiu, G
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Inst Strings Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Columbia Univ, Dept Math, New York, NY 10027 USA
[3] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2003年 / 67卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.67.063508
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We analyze the impact of certain modifications to short distance physics on the inflationary perturbation spectrum. For the specific case of power-law inflation, we find distinctive-and possibly observable-effects on the spectrum of density perturbations.
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