Dynamical solution to the problem of a small cosmological constant and late-time cosmic acceleration

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 4438-4441

  Armendariz Picon, C ^a   Mukhanov, V ^a   Steinhardt, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COSMIC ACCELERATION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; ENERGY DENSITY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0034321330     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4438     Document Type: Article

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