RG-flow, gravity and the cosmological constant

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5 PART B, 2000, Pages 20-25

  Verlinde, Erik ^b   Verlinde, Herman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244253166     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/05/034     Document Type: Article

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