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Conformal cosmology with no cosmological constant

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We present a locally conformal invariant cosmology based on the Weyl tensor rather than the Einstein one. The cosmology admits of a de Sitter solution with no cosmological constant.

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  1. Philip D. Mannheim

    Present address: Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, 06269, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

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  1. Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 20771, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

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Mannheim, P.D. Conformal cosmology with no cosmological constant. Gen Relat Gravit 22, 289–298 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00756278

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