Degravitation, inflation and the cosmological constant as an afterglow

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Patil, Subodh P ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; Gravity; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649165846     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/01/017     Document Type: Article

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