Emergent physics on vacuum energy and cosmological constant

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 850, Issue , 2006, Pages 26-33

  Volovik, G E ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant; Effective theory; Physical vacuum

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947508299     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2354594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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