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In this thesis, I have demonstrated that gravitational waves can be used as powerful probes of the early universe. I focussed on two separate topics, tensor perturbations from inflation within a quantum gravity formalism, and gravitational waves from preheating in the presence of a light scalar field.
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—Lawrence M. Krauss
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Bethke, L.B. (2015). Concluding Remarks. In: Exploring the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17449-5_4
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