Watchers of the multiverse

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Garriga, Jaume ^a,b   Vilenkin, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Initial conditions and eternal universe; Quantum cosmology; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880724990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/037     Document Type: Article

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