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The Cosmological Constant $Lambda$, in different incarnations, has been with us for 100 years. Many surveys of dark energy are underway, indicating so far that the data are consistent with a dark energy equation of state of $w=-1$, i.e. a $Lambda$ term in Einsteins equation, although time variation of $w$ is not yet ruled out. The ball is now back in the theoreticians court, to explain the physical meaning of $Lambda$. We discuss sociological aspects of this field, in particular to what extent the agreement on the cold dark matter + $Lambda$ concordance model is a result of the globalization of research and over-communication.
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It is well known that string theories naturally compactify on anti-de Sitter spaces, and yet cosmological observations show no evidence of a negative cosmological constant in the early Universes evolution. In this letter we present two simple nonlocal modifications of the standard Friedmann cosmology that can lead to observationally viable cosmologies with an initial (negative) cosmological constant. The nonlocal operators we include are toy models for the quantum cosmological backreaction. In Model I an initial quasiperiodic oscillatory epoch is followed by inflation and a late time matter era, representing a dark matter candidate. The backreaction in Model II quickly compensates the negative cosmological term such that the Ricci curvature scalar rapidly approaches zero, and the Universe ends up in a late time radiation era.
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