The IR stability of de Sitter QFT: Physical initial conditions

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3497-3530

  Marolf, Donald ^a   Morrison, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

De Sitter; QFT; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555203413     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-011-1233-3     Document Type: Article

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