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Exact Brans-Dicke cosmologies with a cosmological constant

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We present the general Brans-Dicke-Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (k=0) vacuum solutions with a cosmological constant. The space-times considered here are the generalizations of the de Sitter models of the general theory of relativity.

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Lorenz-Petzold, D. Exact Brans-Dicke cosmologies with a cosmological constant. Astrophys Space Sci 100, 461–465 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00651628

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