Geometrical Origin of the Cosmological Term
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Nonmetricity derived from a scalar field is shown to exist as a cosmic field, without direct coupling to matter. It leads to a variable cosmological term, a term that dominates the expansion in the early universe but dies away at later time.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0605142,
title = {Geometrical Origin of the Cosmological Term},
author = {Richard T Hammond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0605142},
year = {2008}
}
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7 pages