Cosmology as geodesic motion

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5375-5396

  Townsend, Paul K ^a,b   Wohlfarth, Mattias N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 10844239913     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/23/006     Document Type: Article

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