The cosmological constant problem from a brane-world perspective

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 9 PART B, 2000, Pages 1-23

  Förste, Stefan ^a   Lalak, Zygmunt ^a,b   Lavignac, Stéphane ^a,c   Nilles, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Extra Large Dimensions; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044228092     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/034     Document Type: Article

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