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False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation

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Smeenk, C. (2005). False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation. In: Kox, A.J., Eisenstaedt, J. (eds) The Universe of General Relativity. Einstein Studies, vol 11. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4454-7_13

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