Quantum gravity and inflation

Physical Review D

Volumn 70, Issue 4 B, 2004, Pages

  Alexander, Stephon ^a   Malecki, Justin ^b,c   Smolin, Lee ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; ENERGY; GRAVITY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUANTUM THEORY; SPACE; TIME;

EID: 42749102609     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.044025     Document Type: Article

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