A Null Test of the Cosmological Constant
Astrophysics
2009-06-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We provide a consistency relation between cosmological observables in general relativity with the cosmological constant. Breaking of this relation at any redshift would imply the breakdown of the hypothesis of the cosmological constant as an explanation of the current acceleration of the universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.3877,
title = {A Null Test of the Cosmological Constant},
author = {Takeshi Chiba and Takashi Nakamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3877},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, references added, to be published in Prog.Theor.Phys