Why does gravity ignore the vacuum energy?

International Journal of Modern Physics D

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2029-2058

  Padmanabhan, T ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant problem; Vacuum energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947179424     PISSN: 02182718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271806009455     Document Type: Article

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