Time asymmetries in quantum cosmology and the search for boundary conditions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4729-4746

  Castagnino, Mario ^a,b   Catren, Gabriel ^a,b   Ferraro, Rafael ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

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EID: 0036376390     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/308     Document Type: Article

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