Decay of flux vacua to nothing

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Blanco Pillado, Jose J ^a   Ramadhan, Handhika S ^a   Shlaer, Benjamin ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings; Cosmology with extra dimensions; Domain walls; Monopoles; Quantum cosmology; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449284019     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/029     Document Type: Article

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