Pre-big-bang bubbles from the gravitational instability of generic string vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 543, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 275-320

  Buonanno, A ^a   Damour, T ^a,b   Veneziano, G ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Physics of the early universe; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033594042     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00805-0     Document Type: Article

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