Ekpyrotic universe: Colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Khoury, Justin ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^b   Steinhardt, Paul J ^a   Turok, Neil ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DENSITY; GRAVITY; POLARIZATION; SPACE; SPECTRUM; THEORY; VELOCITY;

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