Living Reviews in Relativity (Jan 2001)

The Cosmological Constant

  • Carroll Sean M.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4
p. 1

Abstract

Read online

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.

Keywords