Inflation and quintessence: Theoretical approach of cosmological reconstruction

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Neupane, Ishwaree P ^a,b   Scherer, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449111822     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/05/009     Document Type: Article

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