How unitary cosmology generalizes thermodynamics and solves the inflationary entropy problem

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Tegmark, Max ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84862304044     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.123517     Document Type: Article

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