Rapid tunneling and percolation in the landscape

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 741-788

  Sarangi, Saswat ^a   Shiu, Gary ^b   Shlaer, Benjamin ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

DBI action; Percolation theory; QFT; String landscape; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249154751     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X09042529     Document Type: Article

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