Is Dark Energy the Only Solution to the Apparent Acceleration of the Present Universe?
- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics
- Vol. 108 (5) , 809-818
Abstract
Even for the observed luminosity distance DL(z), which suggests the existence of dark energy, we show that an inhomogeneous dust universe solution without dark energy is possible in general. Future observation of DL(z) for 1 ≲z < 1.7 may confirm or refute this possibility.Keywords
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