Power of black hole physics: Seeing through the vacuum landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Dvali, Gia ^a,b   Lüst, Dieter ^c,d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Large extra dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249132486     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/047     Document Type: Article

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