The revival of cosmic strings

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 15, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 264-276

  Sakellariadou, Mairi ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings superstrings; Cosmology; Early universe

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MICROWAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THEOREM PROVING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TOPOLOGY;

COSMIC STRINGS/SUPERSTRINGS; COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; COSMOLOGY; EARLY UNIVERSE;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 33646269525     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200510186     Document Type: Article

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