The Cosmological Constant as Event Horizon

Abstract

General Relativity allows for a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) which has inspired models of cosmic Inflation and Dark Energy. We show instead that $r_{\Lambda }=\sqrt{3/\Lambda }$ corresponds to an event horizon: a causal boundary term in the action. Our Universe is expanding inside its Schwarzschild radius $r_S=\rL=2GM$, which could have originated from a uniform free falling cloud of mass $M$ that collapsed as a Black Hole (BH) 25 Gyrs ago. Such a BH Universe allows for large-scale structure formation without the need of Inflation or Dark Energy.

8 pages, 2 figures