Towards a stringy resolution of the cosmological singularity

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Easson, Damien A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; SPACE;

EID: 0141545091     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.043514     Document Type: Article

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