Bound on the time variation of the fine structure constant driven by quintessence

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-343

  Lee, Da Shin ^a   Lee, Wolung ^b,c   Kin Wang, N G ^c  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Fine structure constant; Quintessence

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344453021     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021827180500589X     Document Type: Article

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