Spontaneous decay of the effective cosmological constant

被引:13
作者
Ozer, M [1 ]
Taha, MO [1 ]
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[1] King Saud Univ, Coll Sci, Dept Phys, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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10.1142/S0217732398000620
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
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 space-time.
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