On anthropic solutions of the cosmological constant problem

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Banks, Tom ^a,b   Dine, Michael ^a   Motl, Lubos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; M Theory; p branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744855236     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/031     Document Type: Article

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