79 citations · 148 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-th2012★ 44 cited
Consistency Relations for the Conformal Mechanism
Paolo Creminelli, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1
We systematically derive the consistency relations associated to the non-linearly realized symmetries of theories with spontaneously broken conformal symmetry but with a linearly-r…
hep-th2012★ 79 cited
DBI Realizations of the Pseudo-Conformal Universe and Galilean Genesis Scenarios
Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury +1
The pseudo-conformal universe is an alternative to inflation in which the early universe is described by a conformal field theory on approximately flat space-time. The fields devel…
hep-th2011★ 25 cited
Scale Invariance via a Phase of Slow Expansion
Austin Joyce, Justin Khoury
We consider a cosmological scenario in which a scale-invariant spectrum of curvature perturbations is generated by a rapidly-evolving equation of state on a slowly expanding backgr…