Ekpyrotic and cyclic cosmology

Physics Reports

Volumn 465, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 223-263

  Lehners, Jean Luc ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big bang; Branes; Cosmology; Dark energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649129001     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2008.06.001     Document Type: Review

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