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Participant	Sung, Rockhee
Institution	department of mathematics and applied mathematics - University of Cape Town, Rondebosch - Cape Town - Western Cape - South Africa

Session	CM2	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Cautious constraints on the cosmic curvature
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Abstract	It is now taken as near fact that the universe is flat to high accuracy. Yet such constraints are derived assuming that dark energy is a cosmological constant. Constraints on dark energy are then often quoted assuming that the curvature is zero, even though curvature and dynamical dark energy can be degenerate. We investigate how constraints on curvature changes if we accept that dark energy is currently unknown.