Matter-vacuum conformal age integral
ID: matter-vacuum-conformal-age-integral
In a flat universe containing pressureless matter and a positive cosmological constant, normalize the scale factor to one today. The Friedmann equation and giveThe change of variable is . Including radiation in cosmology makes this an approximation, with its omitted early contribution of order . When the upper limit is large, the integral approaches ; this follows by setting and using the beta function integral.
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