The Cosmological Constant

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Authors

Sean M. Carroll · California Institute of Technology

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.

Topics & Keywords

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Relativity and Gravitational Theory Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

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Publication Details

Published in: Living Reviews in Relativity

Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 1-1

DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2001-1

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