SIGNATURE DYNAMICS IN GENERAL-RELATIVITY

被引:78
作者
DERELI, T [1 ]
TUCKER, RW [1 ]
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[1] UNIV LANCASTER,SCH PHYS & MAT,LANCASTER LA1 4YB,ENGLAND
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10.1088/0264-9381/10/2/018
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We describe classical models of gravitation interacting with scalar fields whose solutions involve degenerate metrics. Some of these solutions exhibit transitions from a Euclidean domain to a Lorentzian spacetime corresponding to a spatially flat Robertson-Walker cosmology.
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页码:365 / 373
页数:9
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