# August 1998 SINP/TNP/98-21 hep-ph/9809410 How degenerate can cosmological neutrinos be?

## Note added :

After this paper was accepted for publication, we came to know about a paper by Khare and Deo  which also found the correlated bounds on neutrino mass and degeneracy from the upper limit on cosmological energy density. However, these authors assumed the neutrino distribution to be thermal even in the present universe. In our analysis, we have taken into account neutrino decoupling and the subsequent deviation of the neutrino distribution from a thermal one.