Spacetime foam model of the Schwarzschild horizon

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Mäkelä, Jarmo ^a   Peltola, Ari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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EID: 3843104615     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.124008     Document Type: Article

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