Classical propagation of strings across a big crunch/big bang singularity

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Niz, Gustavo ^a   Turok, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33846407254     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.026001     Document Type: Article

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