Nonperturbative effects of vacuum energy on the recent expansion of the universe

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Parker, Leonard ^a   Raval, Alpan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 18044397126     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.063512     Document Type: Article

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