On the “Causality Argument” in Bouncing Cosmologies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Martin, Jérôme ^a   Peter, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RELATIVITY;

EINSTEIN EQUATIONS; ENERGY DENSITY; NULL ENERGY CONDITION (NEC); WAVE NUMBERS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 3843104589     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.061301     Document Type: Article

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