Cosmic Superstrings

String Cosmology: Modern String Theory Concepts from the Big Bang to Cosmic Structure

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-156

  Myers, Robert C ^a   Wyman, Mark ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmic superstrings; Cosmological scales; Superstring theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889872661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527628063.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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