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Cosmological correlators, the natural observables of the primordial universe, have been extensively studied in the past two decades using the in-in formalism pioneered by Schwinger and Keldysh for the study of dissipative open systems.…
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Criteria for the existence of de Sitter inflation with dilaton fields in four-dimensional space-times with torsion is discussed.The relation between matter density perturbation and the spin-density perturbation is stablished based on this…
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