From inflation to a zero cosmological constant phase without fine-tuning

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7200-7203

  Guendelman, E I ^a   Kaganovich, A B ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0001328718     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7200     Document Type: Article

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