A primer on problems and prospects of dark energy

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 887-910

  Sami, M ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dark energy; Modified theories of gravity; Newtonian cosmology; Pressure corrections; Scalar field dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849117645     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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