Liouville cosmology at zero and finite temperatures

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1379-1444

  Ellis, John ^a   Mavromatos, Nikolaos E ^b   Westmuckett, Michael ^b   Nanopoulos, Dimitri V ^c,d,e  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Early universe; Finite temperature; Noncritical strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645971651     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X06028990     Document Type: Review

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