Vacuum Energy as the Origin of the Gravitational Constant

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1407-1425

  Demir, D A ^a  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant; Non Riemannian geometry; Vacuum energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349113137     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-009-9364-z     Document Type: Article

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