The relevance of the cosmological constant for lensing

This review surveys some recent developments concerning the effect of the cosmological constant on the bending of light by a spherical mass in Kottler (Schwarzschild–de Sitter) spacetime. Some proposals of how such an effect may be put into a setting of gravitational lensing in cosmology are also di...

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Published inGeneral relativity and gravitation Vol. 42; no. 9; pp. 2247 - 2268
Main Authors Ishak, Mustapha, Rindler, Wolfgang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.09.2010
Subjects
Astronomy
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Differential Geometry
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Physics
Relativity Theory
Review Article
Theoretical
Cosmological constant
Lensing
Bending of light
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Summary:This review surveys some recent developments concerning the effect of the cosmological constant on the bending of light by a spherical mass in Kottler (Schwarzschild–de Sitter) spacetime. Some proposals of how such an effect may be put into a setting of gravitational lensing in cosmology are also discussed. The picture that emerges from this review is that it seems fair to assert that the contribution of Λ to the bending of light has by now been well established, while putting the Λ light-bending terms into a cosmological context is still subject to some interpretation and requires further work and clarification.
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ISSN:0001-7701
1572-9532
DOI:10.1007/s10714-010-0973-9