Cosmic acceleration without quintessence

2000/12/14 by Narayan Banerjee, Diego Pavón, Diego Pavon · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.63.043504

published as Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 043504 · Latex file, 7 pages, no figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. D

arxiv created 2000/12/14 · openalex publication_date 2001/01/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

It is argued that the Brans-Dicke theory may explain the present accelerated expansion of the universe without resorting to a cosmological constant or quintessence matter

Citations

• Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
• Mach's Principle and a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation
• Quintessence and the Rest of the World
• Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
• The Cosmological Constant

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