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Sean M. Carroll
2000.4.6Living Reviews in Relativity
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Review of cosmological constant physics and cosmology, focusing on recent developments and observational constraints.
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.
Citation format
CARROLL, Sean M. The cosmological constant [preprint]. arXiv, 2000. arXiv:astro-ph/0004075.