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Andrew R. Liddle coauthored an analysis of when observable perturbations were produced relative to the end of cosmic inflation. It shows why a single universal count of expansion factors is not an assumption-free link between an inflationary model and present observations.^[ref]

The duration and physical conditions after inflation enter the mapping between an observed wavelength and the earlier field evolution. This gives reheating a role in testing a model even when the reheating process is not directly observed.

David H. Lyth helped establish when large-scale cosmological curvature is conserved. With David Wands, Karim A. Malik and Andrew R. Liddle, he showed that negligible non-adiabatic pressure perturbations preserve the uniform-density curvature perturbation when spatial-gradient effects are negligible.^[ref]

The result specifies when primordial fluctuations can be carried forward without solving every intervening gravitational detail.

Karim A. Malik developed the treatment of gauge-invariant cosmological curvature with David Wands, David H. Lyth and Andrew R. Liddle. Their 2000 analysis derived large-scale evolution from stress-energy conservation, exposing how a non-adiabatic pressure perturbation can change the uniform-density curvature perturbation.^[ref]