Relic gravitational waves and limits on inflation
- 15 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 48 (8) , 3513-3516
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.48.3513
Abstract
It is shown that only a narrow class of inflationary models can possibly agree with the available observational data on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. These models may be governed by "matter" with the effective equation of state .
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