The scaling evolution of the cosmological constant

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 145-173

  Shapiro, Ilya L ^a,b,e   Solà, Joan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e TOMSK STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044442595     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/006     Document Type: Article

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