The Cosmological Constant

This is a review of the physics and cosmology of the cosmological constant. Focusing on recent developments, I present a pedagogical overview of cosmology in the presence of a cosmological constant, observational constraints on its magnitude, and the physics of a small (and potentially nonzero) vacu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carroll Sean M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2001-01-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2001-1