Quantum effects in gravitational wave signals from cuspy superstrings

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Chialva, Diego ^a,b   Damour, Thibault ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Gravity waves experiments; Gravity waves theory; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749098411     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/08/003     Document Type: Article

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