Inflationary spacetimes are incomplete in past directions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Borde, Arvind ^a,b   Guth, Alan H ^a,c   Vilenkin, Alexander ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southampton College   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSMIC RAYS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; HUBBLE PARAMETER; INFLATIONARY SPACETIMES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038540541     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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