The conformal status of w = -3/2 Brans-Dicke cosmology

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 237-257

  Dabrowski, Mariusz P ^a   Denkiewicz, Tomasz ^a,b   Blaschke, David B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conformal cosmology; Phantom cosmology; Scalar tensor cosmology

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELATIVITY;

ANISOTROPIC FRAMEWORKS; CONFORMAL COSMOLOGY; PHANTOM COSMOLOGY; VACUUM FIELD EQUATIONS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 34547176871     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200610230     Document Type: Article

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