Dynamic cancellation of a cosmological constant and approach to the Minkowski vacuum
arXiv:1601.00601 · doi:10.1142/S0217732316501601
Abstract
The -theory approach to the cosmological constant problem is reconsidered. The new observation is that the effective classical -theory gets modified due to the backreaction of quantum-mechanical particle production by spacetime curvature. Furthermore, a Planck-scale cosmological constant is added to the potential term of the action density, in order to represent the effects from zero-point energies and phase transitions. The resulting dynamical equations of a spatially-flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe are then found to give a steady approach to the Minkowski vacuum, with attractor behavior for a finite domain of initial boundary conditions on the fields. The approach to the Minkowski vacuum is slow and gives rise to an inflation-type increase of the particle horizon.
15 pages, v6: published version
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