Starting the Universe: Stable violation of the null energy condition and non-standard cosmologies

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Creminelli, Paolo ^a   Luty, Markus A ^b   Nicolis, Alberto ^c   Senatore, Leonardo ^d  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Space Time Symmetries; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846158485     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/080     Document Type: Review

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