The null energy condition and instability

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Buniy, Roman V ^a   Hsu, Stephen D H ^a   Murray, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 33748931636     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.063518     Document Type: Article

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