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We review some general aspects of braneworld cosmologies in which an inflationary period driven by a scalar field confined on the brane is described by a nonstandard effective Friedmann equation. The perturbation spectra, consistency equations and observational consequences of these models are considered.
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Calcagni, G. (2005). Braneworld Cosmology Almost without Branes. In: Baulieu, L., de Boer, J., Pioline, B., Rabinovici, E. (eds) String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to Cosmology. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 208. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3733-3_14
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