Can the universe experience many cycles with different vacua?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Piao, Yun Song ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACUUM;

EID: 37649027161     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.101302     Document Type: Article

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