Deconstructing de Sitter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a,c   Hořava, Petr ^b   Minic, Djordje ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADS CFT correspondance; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744721100     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/043     Document Type: Article

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