Towards a nonsingular tachyonic big crunch

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Brandenberger, Robert H ^a   Frey, Andrew R ^a   Kanno, Sugumi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34548772469     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.063502     Document Type: Article

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