Nonsingular bouncing universes in loop quantum cosmology

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Singh, Parampreet ^a   Vandersloot, Kevin ^a   Vereshchagin, G V ^b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ICRANET   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 33747102397     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.043510     Document Type: Article

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