Infrared sensitivity of unstable vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 849, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 410-432

  Krotov, Dmitry ^a   Polyakov, Alexander M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backreaction; Cosmological constant problem; De sitter space; IR effects; Particle production in constant electric field

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955643071     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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