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On the mystery of the cosmic vacuum energy density
Norbert Straumann
After a short history of the -term it is explained why the (effective) cosmological constant is expected to obtain contributions from short-distance physics, corresponding to an…
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The mystery of cosmological vacuum energy density and the accelerated expansion of the universe
Domenico Giulini, Norbert Straumann
The principles of General Relativity allow for a non-vanishing cosmological constant, which can possibly be interpreted at least partially in terms of quantum-fluctuations of matte…
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Reflections on Gravity
Norbert Straumann
A pedagogical description of a simple ungeometrical approach to General Relativity is given, which follows the pattern of well understood field theories, such as electrodynamics. T…