Quantum nature of cosmological bounces

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2659-2683

  Bojowald, Martin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big bang singularity; Bounce; Quantum cosmology; Squeezed states

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349104622     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-008-0645-1     Document Type: Article

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