Accelerated expansion from ghost-free bigravity: A statistical analysis with improved generality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Akrami, Yashar ^a   Koivisto, Tomi Sebastian ^a   Sandstad, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876256260     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)099     Document Type: Article

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