An inhomogeneous model universe behaving homogeneously

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1047-1069

  Khosravi, Sh ^a,b   Kourkchi, E ^c   Mansouri, R ^b,c   Akrami, Y ^d  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dark energy; Inhomogeneous models

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649087412     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-007-0590-4     Document Type: Article

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