The IR-completion of gravity: What happens at Hubble scales?

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Piazza, Federico ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; BLACK HOLES; COMMUTATION RELATION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES; CUT-OFF; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLES; EXPECTATION VALUES; FIELD OPERATORS; FOURIER MODES; GENERAL RELATIVITY; INFORMATION LOSS; MOVING OBSERVERS; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALE FACTOR; SPACETIME; STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR; TIME-DEPENDENT;

GRAVITATION; TENSORS; VACUUM;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 72049106660     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113050     Document Type: Article

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