Dark energy as a mirage

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 567-599

  Mattsson, Teppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Dark energy; Gravitation; Inhomogeneous cosmological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950460039     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-009-0873-z     Document Type: Article

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