Thermal duality and non-singular cosmology in d-dimensional superstrings

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 855, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 280-307

  Kounnas, Costas ^a   Partouche, Hervé ^b   Toumbas, Nicolaos ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Hagedorn singularity; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80455130087     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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