I Einstein's General Relativity w/o Cosmological Constant

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I mean, what's "general relativity but without the cosmological constant term" (##G_{\mu \nu}=\kappa T_{\mu \nu}##) called?
 
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The Einstein Field Equation. All you've done is set ##\Lambda=0## or subsume the term into the stress-energy tensor.
 
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