Why there is something rather than nothing: Cosmological constant from summing over everything in lorentzian quantum gravity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Barvinsky, A O ^a  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY;

COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DENSITY MATRIX; MICROCANONICAL STATE;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 34548071667     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.071301     Document Type: Article

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