The cosmological constant problem and Kaluza-Klein theory

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 905-912

  Wesson, Paul S ^a,b   Liu, Hongya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics   (United States)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant problem; Kaluza Klein theory; Supergravity; Superstrings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035564437     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271801001396     Document Type: Article

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