Particle physics models of inflation and the cosmological density perturbation

@article{Lyth1998ParticlePM,  title={Particle physics models of inflation and the cosmological density perturbation},  author={David H. Lyth and Antonio Riotto},  journal={Physics Reports},  year={1998},  volume={314},  pages={1-146},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119517140}}

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