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Republication of: The cosmological constant and the theory of elementary particles (By Ya. B. Zeldovich)

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The seminal paper by Ya. B. Zeldovich (Soviet Physics Uspekhi 11, 381–393, 1968) is reprinted here, together with an editorial comment on its lasting scientific relevance, and a biography of the author.

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  1. Ref. 7 is more extended in the original Russian text; the omitted part says: “A. Sandage, in the collection ‘Observable foundations of cosmology’, M. ‘Mir’ 1965, p. 126”. The “M.” is an abbreviation for “Moscow”, “Mir” is the name of a Soviet publishing company (editor).

  2. In the original Russian text, Ref. 8 cites only the Russian edition (editor).

  3. In the original Russian text, Ref. 11 says also: “(see translation: A collection of scientific works, vol. 1, M., ‘Nauka’ 1966, p. 601 (art. 44))” (editor).

  4. The Russian version of Ref. 12 is different; instead of the two Z. Physik papers of Friedmann it cites “Usp. Fiz. Nauk 80(3), 439, 447 (1963); 93(2), 280 (1967)”. Vol. 80 of Usp. Fiz. Nauk contains the Friedmann papers translated to Russian, together with a few accompanying essays that emphasise the importance of Friedmann’s work; see the comment in Gen.Relativ.Gravit. 32, 1937 (2000).Vol. 93 of Usp. Fiz. Nauk contains just the Russian translation of the first Friedmann paper. It appeared as an element of a series of reprints of most remarkable Russian papers published in the years after 1917. The series was printed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the birth of Soviet Union (editor).

  5. In the Russian text, Ref. 13 includes also “see translation: A collection of scientific works, vol. 3, M., ‘Nauka’ 1967, p. 349 (art. 104)” (editor).

  6. The Russian Ref. 15 cites the Russian translation of Eddington’s book: “Teoriya otnositelnosti, M. – L., GTTI, 1934”. The “M. – L.” stands for “Moscow – Leningrad”, “GTTI” stands for “Gosudarstvennoye Tekhniko–Teoreticheskoye Izdatelstvo” (State Technical–Theoretical Publishing Company) (editor).

  7. In the Russian text, Ref. 19 says in addition “see also Usp. Fiz. Nauk 88, 199; 89, 731, 734 (1966)” (editor).

  8. The paper cited here as a preprint was published next year: V. Petrosian and E.E. Salpeter, Astrophys. J. 151, 411 (1968) (editor).

  9. This paper was translated to English (Sov. Phys. Doklady 12, 1040 (1968)) and then reprinted in our “Golden Oldies series”, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 32, 361 (2000). The “[sic!]” does not exist in the Russian text; most probably it expresses the astonishment of an American worker of the publishing house that a paper by Andriej Sakharov could have been cited ina Soviet paper (editor).

  10. The Russian Ref. 27 cites the Russian translation of Wentzel’s book: “Vvedeniye v kvantovuyu teoriyu volnovykh poley, M., Gostechizdat, 1947” (editor).

  11. 49The Russian Ref. 28 cites the Russian translation of the book: “PCT, spin, statistika i vse takoye, M. ‘Nauka’, 1966” (editor).

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  1. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Poona University Campus, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkind, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

    Varun Sahni

  2. N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bartycka 18, 00 716, Warszawa, Poland

    Andrzej Krasiński

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Original paper: Zeldovich, Ya. B., Kosmologicheskaya postoyannaya i teoriya elementarnykh chastits. Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk 95, 209–230 (1968). English translation by J. G. Adashko. Reprinted (with editorial corrections) with permission from Zeldovich, Ya. B.: The cosmological constant and the theory of elementary particles. Soviet Physics Uspekhi 11, 381–393, ©1968, American Institute of Physics and with the kind permission of the Editor of Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk.

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Sahni, V., Krasiński, A. Republication of: The cosmological constant and the theory of elementary particles (By Ya. B. Zeldovich). Gen Relativ Gravit 40, 1557–1591 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-008-0624-6

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