Categorizing different approaches to the cosmological constant problem

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 613-680

  Nobbenhuis, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Spinoza Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant problem; Modifying gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747119771     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-005-9042-8     Document Type: Article

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