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Abstract
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) vacuum energy.Entities:
Keywords: cosmological constant; cosmology; vacuum energy
Year: 2001 PMID: 28179856 PMCID: PMC5256042 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2001-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Living Rev Relativ ISSN: 1433-8351 Impact factor: 42.900