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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2010, Article ID 157079, 68 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/157079
Review Article

Non-Gaussianity and the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies

N. Bartolo,1,2 S. Matarrese,1,2 and A. Riotto2,3

1Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Galilei”, Università di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 131 Padova, Italy
2INFN, Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
3CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received 19 January 2010; Revised 14 June 2010; Accepted 29 June 2010

Academic Editor: Eiichiro Komatsu

Copyright © 2010 N. Bartolo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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