Harmonic cosmology: How much can we know about a universe before the big bang?

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2096, 2008, Pages 2135-2150

  Bojowald, Martin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Dynamical coherent states; Quantum gravity

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; COHERENT LIGHT; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; BIG BANG; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; COHERENT STATES; EVOLUTION (CO); EXACTLY SOLVABLE MODELS; LOOP QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (LQC); QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; REALISTIC MODELING; SOLVABLE MODELS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 46249098857     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2008.0050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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