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Distinguishing between inflationary models from cosmic microwave background

Tsujikawa, Shinji

In this paper, inflationary cosmology is reviewed, paying particular attention to its observational signatures associated with large-scale density perturbations generated from quantum fluctuations. In the most general scalar-tensor theories with second-order equations of motion, we derive the scalar spectral index n_s, the tensor-to-scalar ratio r…