Topological defects and open inflation

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3238-3241

  Vilenkin, Alexander ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009988930     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3238     Document Type: Article

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