Comments on the vacuum energy decay

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Álvarez, Enrique ^a   Vidal, Roberto ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; Quantum cosmology; Quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649803047     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/043     Document Type: Review

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