General second-order scalar-tensor theory and self-tuning

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Charmousis, Christos ^a,b   Copeland, Edmund J ^c   Padilla, Antonio ^c   Saffin, Paul M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; FIELD EQUATION; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; NO-GO THEOREM; POINCARE; RIEMANN TENSORS; SCALAR FIELDS; SECOND ORDERS; SELF-TUNING MECHANISMS; SELFTUNING; SPACETIME CURVATURE;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

TENSORS;

EID: 84856239850     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.051101     Document Type: Article

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