String propagation in the presence of cosmological singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1241-1276

  Craps, Ben ^a   Kutasov, David ^a,b   Rajesh, Govindan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044483141     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/053     Document Type: Article

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