String gas cosmology

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 435-454

  Battefeld, Thorsten ^a   Watson, Scott ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GAS DYNAMICS; GASES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; WINDING;

EFFECTIVE THEORIES; ENHANCED SYMMETRY STATES; STRING GASES; STRING WINDING MODES;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 33646501448     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.78.435     Document Type: Article

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