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standard model of cosmology

Idea

The standard model (in theoretical physics) for the observed cosmology:

an inflationary FRW spacetime with cosmological constant and cold dark matter.

Related concepts

• standard model of particle physics

• MOND

standard model of particle physics and cosmology

theory:	Einstein-	Yang-Mills-	Dirac-	Higgs
	gravity	electroweak and strong nuclear force	fermionic matter	scalar field
field content:	vielbein field $e$	principal connection $\nabla$	spinor $\psi$	scalar field $H$
Lagrangian:	scalar curvature density	field strength squared	Dirac operator component density	field strength squared + potential density
$L=$	$R(e)\mathrm{vol}(e)+$	$⟨F_{\nabla }\wedge {\star }_e{F}_{\nabla }⟩+$	$(\psi ,D_{(e,\nabla )}\psi )\mathrm{vol}(e)+$	$\nabla \overline{H}\wedge {\star }_e\nabla H+(\lambda {\mid H\mid }^4-{\mu }^2{\mid H\mid }^2)\mathrm{vol}(e)$

References

A review is in

• Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, George Smoot, Cosmology today – A brief review (2011)(arXiv:1107.1789)

A discussion of open problems is in

• Benoit Famaey, Stacy McGaugh, Challenges for Lambda-CDM and MOND (arXiv:1301.0623)

See also

• Wikipedia, Lambda-CDM model