Accelerating cosmologies and inflation from M/superstring theories

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-40

  Ohta, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerating cosmologies; Inflation; M superstring theories

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COSMOS; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REVIEW; THEORY; VACUUM;

EID: 14644441777     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X05021257     Document Type: Review

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