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The Cosmological Constant and the Deconstruction of Gravity

Witten has presented an argument for the vanishing of the cosmological constant in 2+1 dimensions. This argument is crucially tied to the specific properties of (2+1)-dimensional gravity. We argue that this reasoning can be deconstructed to 3+1 dimensions under certain conditions. Our observation is...

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Autores principales: Jejjala, Vishnu, Leigh, Robert G., Minic, Djordje
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00101-1
http://cds.cern.ch/record/595049