Uncertainties of predictions in models of eternal inflation

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4298-4310

  Winitzki, Serge ^a   Vilenkin, Alexander ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000137879     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4298     Document Type: Article

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