Hodge duality and cosmological constant

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-141

  Nishino, Hitoshi ^a   Rajpoot, Subhash ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant; Four dimensions; General relativity; Supergravity; Supersymmetry; Ten dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644453169     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732306019372     Document Type: Article

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