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Study of the Magnitude-Redshift Relation for type Ia Supernovae in a Model resulting from a Ricci-Symmetry 1 R. G. Vishwakarma1 0 0 2 n u Abstract: J Models with a dynamic cosmological term Λ (t) are becoming popular as 6 they solve the cosmological constant problem in a natural way. Instead of 1 considering any ad-hoc assumption for the variation of Λ, we consider a v 1 particular symmetry, the contracted Ricci-collineation along the fluid flow, 2 in Einstein’s theory. We show that apart from having interesting properties, 0 this symmetry does demand Λ to be a function of the scale factor of the 6 0 Robertson-Walker metric. In order to test the consistency of the resulting 1 model with observations, we study the magnitude-redshift relation for the 0 / type Ia supernovae data from Perlmutter et al. The data fit the model very c q well and require a positive non-zero Λ and a negative deceleration parameter. r- The best-fitting flat model is obtained as Ω0 ≈ 0.5 with q0 ≈ −0.2. g : v KEY WORDS: Ricci symmetries, variable cosmological term, R-W models. i X r a 1. INTRODUCTION The recent measurements of the CMB anisotropy [1] and the observations of type Ia supernovae made, independently, by Perlmutter et al [2] and Riess et al [3] consistently demand a significant and positive cosmological constant Λ. These observations suggest Friedmann models with negative pressure- matter in which the expansion o