The no-defect conjecture: Cosmological implications

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1998, Pages

  Uzan, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0542418263     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.087301     Document Type: Article

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