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Inflation and the cosmic microwave background

Astrophysics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

I give a status report and outlook concerning the use of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies to constrain the inflationary cosmology, and stress its crucial role as an underlying paradigm for the estimation of cosmological parameters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9801148,
  title  = {Inflation and the cosmic microwave background},
  author = {Andrew R Liddle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9801148},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages LaTeX file, with two figures incorporated using epsf. To appear, proceedings of `The non-sleeping universe', Porto (Astrophysics and Space Science)

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