Stringy mechanism for a small cosmological constant

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sumitomo, Yoske ^a   Henry Tye, S H ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; String theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866273530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/032     Document Type: Article

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