Cosmological constant and the time of its dominance

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Vilenkin, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4244157375     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.61.023503     Document Type: Article

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