Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse

Living Reviews in Relativity

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Gundlach, Carsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84943153812     PISSN: 23673613     EISSN: 14338351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12942/lrr-1999-4     Document Type: Article

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