Exact semiclassical evolutions in relativistic and non-relativistic scalar quantum mechanics and quantum cosmology

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 509, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 529-555

  Mostafazadeh, Ali ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Minisuperspace Wheeler DeWitt equation; Semiclassical approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032484425     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00617-2     Document Type: Article

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