A paradox in the global description of the multiverse

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Bousso, Raphael ^b   Freivogel, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547691046     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/018     Document Type: Article

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