Susskind's challenge to the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal and possible resolutions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Page, Don N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gravity; Physics of the early universe; Quantum gravity phenomenology; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749098529     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/01/004     Document Type: Article

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