Bulk singularities and the effective cosmological constant for higher co-dimension branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 6137-6155

  Tolley, Andrew J ^a   Burgess, Clifford P ^b,c   Hoover, Doug ^d   Aghababaie, Yashar ^e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Flux compactifications; Large Extra Dimensions; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645673939     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/091     Document Type: Review

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