The fate of four dimensions

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Giddings, Steven B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DISASTER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; ENTROPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL WORLD; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SITTER ENTROPY; STRING THEORY; VACUUM; WRAPPED BRANE;

EID: 0041335605     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.026006     Document Type: Article

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