Observational consequences of a landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1005-1023

  Freivogel, Ben ^a   Kleban, Matthew ^b,d   Martínez, María Rodríguez ^c,d   Susskind, Leonard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory

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EID: 33645656842     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/039     Document Type: Review

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