A historical review of how the cosmological constant has fared in general relativity and cosmology.

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00219-9zbMath1036.83033MaRDI QIDQ1419279

George F. R. Ellis

Publication date: 14 January 2004

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityfalse vacuuminflationary theorydistant supernovaelarge-scale repulsive forcevery early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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