Does inflation provide natural initial conditions for the universe

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1671-1674

  Carroll, Sean M ^a   Chen, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrow of time; Cosmology; Inflation

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EID: 27744585580     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-005-0148-2     Document Type: Article

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