Late Phase Transitions and the Spontaneous Generation of Cosmological Density Perturbations

Phase transitions occurring after photon decoupling are shown to result in significant density perturbations.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2234

Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

^*Also Visiting Scientist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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Physical Review Letters