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Mannheim, P.D. (2002). Cosmic Acceleration and a Natural Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem. In: Kursunoglu, B.N., Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) The Role of Neutrinos, Strings, Gravity, and Variable Cosmological Constant in Elementary Particle Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47116-7_3
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