Do we really need cold dark matter?

DOI10.1023/A:1010243405209MaRDI QIDQ5947425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Lessner

Publication date 24 July 2002

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010243405209

zbMATH Keywords

cold dark matternon-zero cosmological constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Review text

In the paper under review, the author points out that Einstein's field equations with a non-zero cosmological constant lead, in the weak limit for slowly moving dust, to a modified gravitational law. For a spherically symmetric field of a pointlike mass at the origin, a negative cosmological constant arises in the gravitational force besides the decreasing Newtonian part and an additional attractive part which is linearly increasing with the distance. This suggests the idea that a negative cosmological constant can replace cold dark matter in clusters. To make this idea more quantitative, the age of the universe in case of a negative cosmological constant has been calculated to 13 billion years.

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