Topological defects in the left-right symmetric model and their relevance to cosmology

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Yajnik, U A ^a   Widyan, Hatem ^b   Choudhury, D ^c   Mahajan, S ^b   Mukherjee, A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

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EID: 17044399620     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.103508     Document Type: Article

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