A first-quantized formalism for cosmological particle production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 565-577

  Hamilton, Alex ^a   Kabat, Daniel ^a,b   Parikh, Maulik ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Space Time Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044463658     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/024     Document Type: Article

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