Vacuum-energy FLRW solution

ID: vacuum-energy-flrw-solution

The equation of state makes the cosmological continuity equation imply constant energy density . For , put . Solving both the Friedmann equation and Friedmann acceleration equation gives
Up to shifts of cosmic time and time reversal, the positive scale factors are for , for , and on for . They are the flat, closed and open slicings of de Sitter spacetime. The open zero is a coordinate boundary with finite Ricci scalar and finite Kretschmann scalar .
For the expanding flat branch, the cosmological event horizon has comoving radial distance and proper distance in cosmology . An event on the horizon reaches the central comoving observer only at infinite reception time; events beyond it never do.

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