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Coasting cosmologies with time dependent cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The effect of a time dependent cosmological constant is considered in a family of scalar tensor theories. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological models for vacumm and perfect fluid matter are found. They have a linear expansion factor, the so called coasting cosmology, the gravitational "constant" decreace inversely with time; this model satisfy the Dirac hipotesis. The cosmological "constant" decreace inversely with the square of time, therefore we can have a very small value for it at present time.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9807016,
  title  = {Coasting cosmologies with time dependent cosmological constant},
  author = {Luis O. Pimentel and L. M. Diaz-Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9807016},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, latex file (ijmpal macro), accepted for publication in Int. Mod. Phys. A

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