Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 118 No. 4 (2007) pp. 815-819

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Letters

A Null Test of the Cosmological Constant

¹Department of Physics, College of Humanities and Sciences,
Nihon University, Tokyo 156-8550, Japan
²Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

(Received July 25, 2007)

Abstract:

We provide a consistency relation between cosmological observables in general relativity with the cosmological constant. Breaking of this relation at any redshift would imply the breakdown of the hypothesis of the cosmological constant as an explanation of the current acceleration of the universe.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/118/815/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.118.815

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