The energy density of "wound" fields in a toroidal universe

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 923-931

  Fischler, Willy ^a   Paban, Sonia ^a   Žanić, Marija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044510456     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/041     Document Type: Article

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