The Contribution of the Cosmological Constant to the Relativistic Bending of Light Revisited

Abstract

We study the effect of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on the bending of light by a concentrated spherically symmetric mass. Contrarily to previous claims, we show that when the Schwarzschild-de Sitter geometry is taken into account, $\Lambda$ does indeed contribute to the bending.

5 pages, 2 figures

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