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Spontaneous Decay of the Effective Cosmological Constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss the notion that quantum fields may induce an effective time-dependent cosmological constant which decays from a large initial value. It is shown that such cosmological models are viable in a non-de Sitter spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9802023,
  title  = {Spontaneous Decay of the Effective Cosmological Constant},
  author = {Murat Özer and M. O. Taha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9802023},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTex, 10 pages, 1 figure (not included).A minor correction in the text and the last referance.To be published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A