The trouble with de Sitter space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1325-1338

  Goheer, Naureen ^a   Kleban, Matthew ^b   Susskind, Leonard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Black Holes in String Theory; Space Time symmetries; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144464917     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/056     Document Type: Article

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