Bubble collisions and measures of the multiverse

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Salem, Michael P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological phase transitions; initial conditions and eternal universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856645437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/01/021     Document Type: Article

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