Clean time-dependent string backgrounds from bubble baths

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 197-231

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Fabinger, Michal ^b   Horowitz, Gary T ^c   Silverstein, Eva ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; M Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044502488     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/007     Document Type: Article

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