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Weinberg, Steven

The cosmological constant problem. (English) Zbl 1129.83361

Rev. Mod. Phys. 61, No. 1, 1-23 (1989).
Summary: Astronomical observations indicate that the cosmological constant is many orders of magnitude smaller than estimated in modern theories of elementary particles. After a brief review of the history of this problem, five different approaches to its solution are described.

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83F05 Relativistic cosmology
83C45 Quantization of the gravitational field
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