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VARYING ALPHA IN COSMOLOGY

JOHN D. BARROW

DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732304014239Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We review some properties of a class of cosmological models which incorporate space and time variations of α in the light of recent observations.

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