The cosmic lithium problem: an observer's perspective
  Using the cosmological constants derived from WMAP, the standard big bang
nucleosynthesis (SBBN) predicts the light elements primordial abundances for
4He, 3He, D, 6Li and 7Li. These predictions are in satisfactory agreement with
the observations, except for lithium which displays in old warm dwarfs an
abundance depleted by a factor of about 3. Depletions of this fragile element
may be produced by several physical processes, in different stellar
evolutionary phases, they will be briefly reviewed here, none of them seeming
yet to reproduce the observed depletion pattern in a fully convincing way.
