Invariance under complex transformations and its relevance to the cosmological constant problem

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3819-3832

  'T Hooft, Gerard ^a,b   Nobbenhuis, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Spinoza Institute   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33646747004     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/009     Document Type: Article

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