Vacuum energy and cosmological supersymmetry breaking in brane worlds

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 547, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 117-127

  Gravanis, Elias ^a   Mavromatos, Nick E ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMOS; ENERGY RESOURCE; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYSICS; SPACE; VACUUM;

EID: 0347386203     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02778-8     Document Type: Article

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