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Curvature radius of an open FLRW universe (rc​=c/[H0​1−Ωm​​])

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Normalize the present scale factor to one. In a dust-only open cosmology with no cosmological constant, the Friedmann equation gives −kc2=H02​(1−Ωm​). The present comoving and physical curvature radii are therefore rc​=c/[H0​1−Ωm​​]. At another epoch the physical curvature radius is arc​.
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