Dark energy from structure: A status report

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 467-527

  Buchert, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Backreaction; Dark Energy; Inhomogeneous Universe Models; Observational Cosmology; Relativistic Cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149086704     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-007-0554-8     Document Type: Article

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