The Cosmological Constant
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
This is a review of the physics and cosmology of the cosmological constant. Focusing on recent developments, I present a pedagogical overview of cosmology in the presence of a cosmological constant, observational constraints on its magnitude, and the physics of a small (and potentially nonzero) vacuum energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004075,
title = {The Cosmological Constant},
author = {Sean M. Carroll},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004075},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
50 pages. Submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity (http://www.livingreviews.org/), December 1999