Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Vilenkin, Alexander ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947646907     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/092     Document Type: Article

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