Developments in string cosmology

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 106-110

  Cleaver, Gerald B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M theory; String cosmology; The universe

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DATA REDUCTION; GRAVITATION; LIGHT EMISSION; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

M-THEORY; PLANCK SCALE; STRING COSMOLOGY; THE UNIVERSE;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 18444411361     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.08.046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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