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In this talk I shall report on some ideas for explaining the experimental smallness of the cosmological constant (CC).
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Veneziano, G. (1991). Some Ideas on the Cosmological Constant Problem. In: Zichichi, A., de Sabbata, V., Sánchez, N. (eds) Gravitation and Modern Cosmology. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0620-5_19
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