Evolution of the scale factor with a variable cosmological term

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages

  Overduin, J M ^a   Cooperstock, F I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.043506     Document Type: Article

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