Brane world solution to the cosmological constant problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1682-1685

  Tye, S H Henry ^a   Wasserman, Ira ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; SOLAR SYSTEM;

BRANE; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; NONGRAVITATIONAL BRANE-BRANE INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0000726242     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1682     Document Type: Article

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