Quantum gravity, cosmology, (Liouville) strings and Lorentz invariance

Beyond the Desert 2002: Accelerator, Non-Accelerator and Space APproaches in the New Millenium - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-28

  Mavromatos, Nick E ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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COSMOLOGY; ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY THRESHOLD; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; INVARIANCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

COSMOLOGY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; NON-CRITICAL STRINGS; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

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