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A mechanism for obtaining a rapidly decreasing cosmological term at classical scales

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Generalized symmetries of the gravitational field equations are used to demonstrate that the average value of the cosmological term decreases rapidly to zero after the inflationary epoch.

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Davis, S. A mechanism for obtaining a rapidly decreasing cosmological term at classical scales. Gen Relativ Gravit 41, 2361–2380 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-009-0764-3

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