A numerical simulation of pre-big bang cosmology

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages

  Maharana, Jnanadeva ^a,c   Veneziano, Gabriele ^a   Onofri, Enrico ^b,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Physics of the Early Universe; String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645937028     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/04/004     Document Type: Article

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