The cosmological constant as a manifestation of the conformal anomaly?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Thomas, Evan C ^a   Urban, Federico R ^a   Zhitnitsky, Ariel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Models of quantum gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350023057     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/043     Document Type: Article

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