Towards inflation and dark energy cosmologies from modified Gauss-Bonnet theory

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Neupane, Ishwaree P ^a,b   Carter, Benedict M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Dark energy theory; Inflation; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749098021     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/06/004     Document Type: Article

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