More on the spectrum of perturbations in string gas cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Brandenberger, Robert H ^a   Kanno, Sugumi ^a   Soda, Jiro ^b   Easson, Damien A ^c   Khoury, Justin ^d   Martineau, Patrick ^a   Nayeri, Ali ^e   Patil, Subodh P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Physics of the early universe; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749098026     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/11/009     Document Type: Review

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