A quintessential introduction to dark energy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1812, 2003, Pages 2497-2513

  Steinhardt, Paul J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic models; Dark energy; K essence; Microwave background; Quintessence; Supernovae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242509803     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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