Positive vacuum energy and the N-bound

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1-23

  Bousso, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes; M Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044226599     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/038     Document Type: Article

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