Football shaped extra dimensions and the absence of self-tuning

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 781-790

  Garriga, Jaume ^a   Porrati, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Extra Large Dimensions; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044447151     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/028     Document Type: Article

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