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astro-ph2007★ 109 cited
Phenomenology of D-Brane Inflation with General Speed of Sound
Hiranya V. Peiris, Daniel Baumann, Brett Friedman +1
A characteristic of D-brane inflation is that fluctuations in the inflaton field can propagate at a speed significantly less than the speed of light. This yields observable effects…
astro-ph2006★ 33 cited
WMAP-normalized Inflationary Model Predictions and the Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves with Direct Detection Experiments
Brett C. Friedman, Asantha Cooray, Alessandro Melchiorri
In addition to density perturbations, inflationary models of the early universe generally predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves or tensor fluctuations. By making u…