Towards an effective particle-string resolution of the cosmological constant problem

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1999, Pages

  Sundrum, Raman ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Models of quantum gravity; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645921011     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/07/001     Document Type: Article

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