A low matter density decaying vacuum cosmology from a complex metric

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1115-1127

  John, Moncy V ^a,b   Joseph, K Babu ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b ST THOMAS COLLEGE   (India)

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EID: 0031490915     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/14/5/016     Document Type: Article

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