When Worlds Collide

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Chang, Spencer ^a   Kleban, Matthew ^a   Levi, Thomas S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmic strings; cosmological phase transitions; domain walls; inflation; monopoles; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879042196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/04/034     Document Type: Article

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