Cosmology, Einstein's "Mach Principle" and the Higgs fields

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 21, Issue 13-14, 2006, Pages 2773-2779

  Ne'eman, Yuval ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological expansion; Dark energy; Dark matter; Higgs field; Vacuum expectation value

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745079501     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X06032575     Document Type: Review

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