Caustics in tachyon matter and other Born-Infeld scalars

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 523-543

  Felder, Gary ^a   Kofman, Lev ^a   Starobinsky, Alexei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044438353     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/026     Document Type: Article

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