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Cosmological constant—the weight of the vacuum

Thanu Padmanabhan
- 01 Jul 2003 - 
- Vol. 380, Iss: 5, pp 235-320
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A review of cosmological constants can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss several aspects of the Cosmological Constant problem from both cosmology and theoretical perspectives.
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This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2003-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cosmological constant problem & Lambda-CDM model.

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Particle Creation by Black Holes

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