Instability of spacelike and null orbifold singularities

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Polchinski, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COSMOS; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; TIME;

EID: 0037113819     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.103512     Document Type: Article

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