Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation and conventions
- 1 Inflation: theory and observations
- 2 Inflation in effective field theory
- 3 Elements of string theory
- 4 What is string inflation?
- 5 Examples of string inflation
- 6 Conclusions and outlook
- Appendix A Mathematical preliminaries
- Appendix B The effective theory of inflation
- Appendix C Primordial perturbations from inflation
- References
- Index
Appendix B - The effective theory of inflation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation and conventions
- 1 Inflation: theory and observations
- 2 Inflation in effective field theory
- 3 Elements of string theory
- 4 What is string inflation?
- 5 Examples of string inflation
- 6 Conclusions and outlook
- Appendix A Mathematical preliminaries
- Appendix B The effective theory of inflation
- Appendix C Primordial perturbations from inflation
- References
- Index
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- Inflation and String Theory , pp. 285 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015