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Cosmological Implications of the Fifth Force

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Yasunori Fujii*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo-Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153 Japan

Abstract

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A brief review is given on the present status of the “fifth force”, followed by the study of its cosmological consequences. If the force is indeed mediated by a massive vector field, we expect a period t ≲ 10−13 sec in which the universe cooled down like T ∼ t−1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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