String gas cosmology: Progress and problems

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Brandenberger, Robert H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 80054000399     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/20/204005     Document Type: Review

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