Fate of the classical false vacuum

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1-12

  Borsanyi Sz ^a   Patkos A ^a,b   Polonyi, J ^a,b   Szep Zs ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

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EID: 85037217188     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.085013     Document Type: Article

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