Republication of: The cosmological constant and the theory of elementary particles (By Ya. B. Zeldovich)

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1557-1591

  Sahni, Varun ^a   Krasiński, Andrzej ^b  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant; Elementary particles; Expanding universe; Golden Oldie; Vacuum energy; Zeldovich

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649715996     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-008-0624-6     Document Type: Article

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