D-Sitter space: Causal structure, thermodynamics, and entropy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1435-1472

  Fabinger, Michal ^a   Silverstein, Eva ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; D branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044489180     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/061     Document Type: Article

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