Primordial gravity wave background anisotropies
@article{Alba2015PrimordialGW, title={Primordial gravity wave background anisotropies}, author={Vasyl Alba and Juan Maldacena}, journal={Journal of High Energy Physics}, year={2015}, volume={2016}, pages={1-8} }
A bstractWe consider the primordial gravity wave background produced by inflation. We compute the small anisotropy produced by the primordial scalar fluctuations.
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