Phase transitions in the core of global embedded defects

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1998, Pages

  Axenides, Minos ^a   Perivolaropoulos, Leandros ^b   Trodden, Mark ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0542394573     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.083505     Document Type: Article

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