Essay: Deconstructing the Cosmological Constant
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Deconstructing the Cosmological Constant
Deconstruction provides a novel way of dealing with the notoriously difficult ultraviolet problems of four-dimensional gravity. This approach also naturally leads to a new perspective on the holographic principle, tying it to the fundamental requirements of unitarity and diffeomorphism invariance, as well as to a new viewpoint on the cosmological constant problem. The numerical smallness of the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: General Relativity and Gravitation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0001-7701,1572-9532
DOI: 10.1023/a:1027337303968