Contribution of the cosmological constant to the relativistic bending of light revisited

on the bending of light by a concentrated spherically symmetric mass. Contrarily to previous claims, we show that when the Schwarzschild-de Sitter geometry is taken into account,

\Lambda

does indeed contribute to the bending.

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