Unification of cosmology and the second law of thermodynamics - Proposal for solving the cosmological constant and inflation problems -

Progress of Theoretical Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 851-871

  Nielsen, Holger B ^a   Ninomiya, Masao ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM PHYSICS   (Japan)

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EID: 33847758609     PISSN: 0033068X     EISSN: 13474081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/PTP.116.851     Document Type: Article

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