Vacuum defects without a vacuum

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Cho, Inyong ^a   Vilenkin, Alexander ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 16444386528     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.021701     Document Type: Article

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