Bouncing brane cosmologies from warped string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-408

  Kachru, Shamit ^a   McAllister, Liam ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D branes

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EID: 23044515944     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/03/018     Document Type: Article

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