Solution

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Choose a reference epoch with and let . Define the critical density and each cosmological density parameter by
For a closed universe . Take the dark-energy component to be a cosmological constant, as indicated by its label. The constant-equation-of-state density scaling gives
Substitution into the Friedmann equation gives
At the reference epoch, . The Friedmann acceleration equation is
Strings have and make no direct acceleration contribution, although they affect the Friedmann constraint. The normalized density parameters are undefined at a static epoch, where ; the static solution must therefore be described directly with dimensional densities.

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