Dark energy: Mystery of the millennium

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 861, Issue , 2006, Pages 179-190

  Padmanabhan, T ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Cosmological constant; Dark energy; Einstein Hilbert action; Gauss Bonnet; Holography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956690362     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2399577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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