Recycling the universe using scalar fields

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2001, Pages

  Kanekar, Nissim ^a,b   Sahni, Varun ^a,c   Shtanov, Yuri ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^c BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMOS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PHYSICS;

EID: 0034883559     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.083520     Document Type: Article

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