A remark on alpha vacua for quantum field theories on de Sitter space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1782-1787

  Brunetti, Romeo ^a   Fredenhagen, Klaus ^a   Hollands, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444448735     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/063     Document Type: Article

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