Tall tales from de Sitter space I: Renormalization group flows

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1207-1240

  Leblond, Frédéric ^a   Myers, Robert C ^b,c,d   Marolf, Donald ^b,c,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Models of Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044448345     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/052     Document Type: Article

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