Focusing of geodesic congruences in an accelerated expanding Universe

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Albareti, F D ^a   Cembranos, J A R ^a   De La Cruz Dombriz, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

gravity; modified gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871765457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/020     Document Type: Article

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