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Multi-(super)graviton theory on topologically non-trivial backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is shown that in some multi-supergraviton models, the contributions to the effective potential due to a non-trivial topology can be positive, giving rise in this way to a positive cosmological constant, as demanded by cosmological observations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506082,
  title  = {Multi-(super)graviton theory on topologically non-trivial backgrounds},
  author = {Guido Cognola and Emilio Elizalde and Sergio Zerbini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506082},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, LaTex, 3 figures; accepted version, to be published in PLB